Stone Gods - Burn The Witch
Burn The Witch is like the bastard child of Iron Maiden and AC/DC which means if you’re still reading this you’ve more than likely worn your hair long & greasy, cut the sleeves off a band t-shirt, combined leather & denim in obscene ways and chosen partners based only on how slutty they’ll look standing next to you impressing your mates – so let’s talk ROCK.
The lead tracks stands out as well suited for grabbing your attention by the balls to ensure you listen to the rest of the EP. You Brought A Knife To A Gunfight then throws Motley Crue into a pit with Skid Row and a thousand weekend rockers with too tight trousers and hairbrush mics, it even has a “Fuck You” chorus making it almost impossible for the true Rocker to dislike it.
Thin Lizzy get their chance next as the over-whelming influence on Breakdown and then we wind down to a too soon end with the obligatory lighter-in-the-air ballad of Heartburn. Stone Gods galloping through every genre of hard & heavy rock they can in four songs possibly just to prove that they aren’t The Darkness any longer. The guitar solo’s even almost manage that neat trick of reaching inside you, tieing your guts around the E-string and ripping them out as the riffs soar onwards to that last power chord. Almost but not quite, give me a few jacks & marlboro, turn it up to eleven and I’m sure I’ll be standing there arm raised high ready to crash down on that air guitar as I scream into the night…
Burn The Witch is a damned fine debut EP, there’s nothing new here, but there doesn’t really have to be in this genre, all that’s required is that you do it well and strike the right pose with the right attitude as you do so. Stone Gods manage to tick all the boxes needed to land squarely in Fucking Great Rock Band territory.
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