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It’s easy to get hung up on the fact that Big Num sound like 1970s AC/DC – a lot. But delve beneath the surface, and you find a band who do this because it’s what comes naturally.

No huge claims need be made about how the young British foursome are gonna change the face of rock. That’s not what they’re about, nor what they aspire to do.

But if you enjoy the idea of a band who sound like they should be playing on the bill with The Pirates at the Hope & Anchor in 1977, then you’ll get what’s going on here.

No frills, just straight-down-the-line souped-up boogie. And enough choruses to ensure the songs are more than window dressing.

Malcolm Dome had an illustrious and celebrated career which stretched back to working for Record Mirror magazine in the late 70s and Metal Fury in the early 80s before joining Kerrang! at its launch in 1981. His first book, Encyclopedia Metallica, published in 1981, may have been the inspiration for the name of a certain band formed that same year. Dome is also credited with inventing the term "thrash metal" while writing about the Anthrax song Metal Thrashing Mad in 1984. With the launch of Classic Rock magazine in 1998 he became involved with that title, sister magazine Metal Hammer, and was a contributor to Prog magazine since its inception in 2009. He died in 2021.

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