Released Via High Roller Records
Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal
Track Listing:
1. Seduce Me Tonight (Celtic Frost Cover)
2. Another Victim
3. Ghetto Dwellers
4. Screaming Rock Believers
5. On The Prowl
6. Cannons Of Satan
7. (She's Got) Demon Eyes
8. Rulin' Like A Tyrant
9. Nightdemon
Bunker
66 are a band with a lot of guts, considering they open by covering an
unfavourable Celtic Frost song; ‘Seduce
Me Tonight’. The band hits with a surprisingly improved take on the
aforementioned song. The first original on the album is unfortunately inferior,
leaning on one mediocre riff for far too long. There’s a very obvious Motorhead
influence on show throughout this album, with simple riffs and blues-driven
guitar solos, but the simplistic approach seems to have only served to dumb
songs like ‘Ghetto Dwellers’ down as
opposed to delivering much impact. The garbled gang vocals doesn’t help
matters. The title track is catchy enough to get the toes tapping for a bit, even
though it’s again too close to Motorhead at times, particularly the classic ‘The Chase Is Better Than The Catch’
which would be fine if this song was better than it. It isn’t. ‘On The Prowl’ has an opening riff that
is close to ‘Damage Case’. By this point
in the album, the similarities begin to frustrate, as does the production job
on the record. The rhythm section sounds fine, but the guitar leads and the
lead vocals constantly echo, rendering the lyrics on ‘Cannons Of Satan’ almost unintelligible. It really doesn’t say
much for Bunker 66 when the best song on their second album is a cover song. This
is a record that you could easily summarise as being utterly forgettable
rubbish.
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