Trash - Burnin' Rock (1985)

This is an odd one. Okay, so it's natural alot of metal bands are gonna sound like Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Zeppelin, Kiss and Sabbath, as these were the big boys who started it all. However, it appears that a lot of Swedish bands sound like AC/DC, and opener 'Boogie Woogie Man' is straight from the AC/DC school of rock, but I'm not complaining, it's just that the weird quib I have is that the second cut 'Burnin' Rock' sounds like a different band - this time Trash opt for a soft rock, keyboard-infested Van Halen/Whitesnake type swagger, and then we're back to the AC/DC plod of 'Rock Me...' but bathed in a Dave Lee Roth vocal, especially on that chorus and y'know what, it's all so nicely accessible, reminding me also of Scorpions. Trash are accomplished metalheads clearly influenced by several bands and they wear their influences on their sleeves. Mocadem and Ball's guitars have clearly read, and re-read the AC/DC manual, 'Night After Night' isn't just sub-standard metal though, and Trash know how to rock, even if they never establish their own identity, but my opinion is that if you're brand of metal works then good for you.
7/10