Articles by: Sleazegrinder

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Came from the sky like a 747. Classic Rock’s least-reputable byline-grabber since 2003. Several decades deep into the music industry. Got fired from an early incarnation of Anal C**t after one show. 30 years later, got fired from the New York Times after one week. Likes rock and hates everything else. Still believes in Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, against all better judgment.

Articles by: Sleazegrinder

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If you ever considered fishnets a fashion necessity then you probably need Bound For Hell On The Sunset Strip

By Sleazegrinder published 30 October 22

Bound For Hell On The Sunset Strip is a sprawling re-examination of unheralded Hollywood glam

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Black Space Riders: laser-blasting stoner rock warriors widen their remit

By Sleazegrinder published 22 October 22

Black Space Riders get real gone for a change on seventh album We Have Been Here Before

Skid Row have released a full-on, victory or death, maximum rock’n’roll album

By Sleazegrinder published 14 October 22

Faded-star hair-metallers Skid Row return with their best album since their best-ever album

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The Black Angels are the perfect soundtrack for the end of the world

By Sleazegrinder published 17 September 22

Austin space streakers The Black Angels are back to feed your head on Wilderness Of Mirrors

Datura 4's Neanderthal Jam is a reverent and joyful ode to arena-rock excess

By Sleazegrinder published 26 August 22

Aussie garage rockers Datura4 go 70s stadium rock on Neanderthal Jam and it all works out fine

Righteous Fool's long-shelved album will melt your face into a puddle of goo

By Sleazegrinder published 1 July 22

Little-known Corrosion Of Conformity offshoot surfaces unexpectedly to bring maximum sludge to the masses

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Grunting, sweating, greasy downer rock from the dawn of the 70s? Step right this way

By Sleazegrinder published 20 May 22

Another deep-dive into the proto-metal past via a 14th creditable collection in the Brown Acid series

Church Of The Cosmic Skull - There Is No Time

Church Of The Cosmic Skull: your new favourite classic rock hippie sex cult

By Sleazegrinder published 13 May 22

Finally, a cult worth joining: Church Of The Cosmic Skull and their life-affirming fourth album There Is No Time

Tokyo Blade's Fury is a pulverising and satisfying return to form

By Sleazegrinder published 22 January 22

Forty years on and it’s still the Night of the Blade

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Death Angel don't deliver the hits on The Bastard Tracks

By Sleazegrinder published 26 November 21

Nothing but deep cuts on Death Angel's brain-rattling live-in-the-studio collection The Bastard Tracks

10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually that great

By Fraser Lewry, Dom Lawson, Malcolm Dome, Jon Hotten, Sleazegrinder, Stephen Hill, Rob Hughes, Dave Ling, Alec Chillingworth published 15 October 21

Everybody's got to start somewhere, and some of our very best bands started slowly. Here's 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great

Ministry's fifteenth album Moral Hygiene provides a few surprise twists

By Sleazegrinder published 1 October 21

Ministry's Al Jourgensen, industrial metal’s favourite deviant, is back with the Trump-inspired Moral Hygiene

Power Trio by Danko Jones: a relentless surge of high-energy, rock’n’roll savagery

By Sleazegrinder published 27 August 21

Power Trio features more rippers from Danko Jones, Canada’s greatest living rock’n’roll band

10 proto-metal albums you should definitely own

By Sleazegrinder published 19 August 21

A handy guide to 10 of the ugliest, gnarliest, most influential proto-metal albums of all time

Velvet Insane: Rock 'N' Roll Glitter Suit

Velvet Insane's Rock 'N' Roll Glitter Suit is a massive attack of stack-heel strutting

By Sleazegrinder published 16 July 21

Out now: Swedish glam-rockers Velvet Insane return with even more sequins on Rock 'N' Roll Glitter Suit

Electric Boys fail to provide the expected good times on Ups!de Down

By Sleazegrinder published 30 April 21

Ups!de Down is a metal carpet ride from Electric Boys, sure, just not a funky one

Revolution: The story of the lost pioneers of heavy metal

By Sleazegrinder published 1 April 21

Beyond Black Sabbath and Judas Priest: The extraordinary story of heavy metal's originators – Iron Butterfly, Leaf Hound, Bloodrock, JPT Scare Band, Bang and more

Detroit Rock City: the 10 best bands from America's rock'n'roll capital

By Sleazegrinder last updated 30 April 22

The 10 best bands (and more) from Detroit, a city with the purest of rock'n'roll coursing through its veins

Every Alice Cooper album, ranked from worst to best

By Sleazegrinder last updated 2 February 22

Updated Alice Cooper invented everything cool in rock’n’roll, so it's appropriate that we examine the wild, weird, and often blood-soaked world of his albums, splayed out from worst to best

Death By Unga Bunga:Heavy Male Insecurity

Death By Unga Bunga's stellar songcraft shines on Heavy Male Insecurity

By Sleazegrinder published 12 February 21

Heavy Male Insecurity is the fifth album from muscular Norwegian power-poppers Death By Unga Bunga

Blue Oyster Cult echo past glories on The Symbol Remains

By Sleazegrinder published 9 October 20

The Symbol Remains is the first new album in 19 years from ultimate cult rockers Blue Oyster Cult

L.A. Witch's Play With Fire: mood music for people who haven't been taking their prescriptions

By Sleazegrinder published 21 August 20

A second dose of headphone melters from cult psych weirdos L.A. Witch

This is what Britpop looked like to an American

By Sleazegrinder published 18 August 20

As a new comp proves that there was more to Britpop than Blur Vs Oasis, we explore a dizzy mess of near-misses and also-rans

Born To Be Wild: The epic story of Steppenwolf

By Sleazegrinder published 29 July 20

John Kay tells the story of Steppenwolf: "We’re a hard rock band and we don’t take shit from anybody"

Neon Animal's Make No Mistake is pure, adrenalin-soaked scorch

By Sleazegrinder published 26 June 20

Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock… on Neon Animals' follow-up to Bring Back Rock n Roll From The Dead

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