Of course, you can’t escape the Motörhead influence. The Los Angeles band are on Motörhead Music, produced by Lemmy’s son Paul Inder, and Phil Campbell even guests on the song Ska Bra but on a musical level, they’re certainly not a Motörclone.
This album stretches across a variety of styles, from power pop to grunge – it even includes hints of ska and symphonic rock. However, this is all held together by an appreciation for ensuring the eclecticism never overrides the Budderside style. And yes, there is style throughout.
Patrick Stone’s vocal approach brings to mind Robin Zander, while guitarist Michael Stoneman has the ability to range between severe riffs and gentle coaxing. Songs like Genocide, Let This One Breathe and My Religion sound like what might happen if The Cars and Foo Fighters formed a coalition. It’s bright, yet also has a tough skin. An effective debut.
How Motörhead influenced heavy music
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 (opens in new tab), 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. He would later become a founding member of RAW rock magazine in 1988.
In the early 90s, Malcolm Dome was the Editor of Metal Forces magazine, and also involved in the horror film magazine Terror, before returning to Kerrang! for a spell. 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 was actively involved in Total Rock Radio (opens in new tab), which launched as Rock Radio Network in 1997, changing its name to Total Rock in 2000. In 2014 he joined the TeamRock online team as Archive Editor, uploading stories from all of our print titles and helping lay the foundation for what became Louder.
Dome was the author of many books on a host of bands from AC/DC to Led Zeppelin and Metallica, some of which he co-wrote with Prog Editor Jerry Ewing.
