This one sounds especially raw, and has a neat little riff that doesn’t sound like a duplicate of all the others. “Saturday Night Cockfight” is a great song title, you have to admit. Take this riff, add this solo, use that bridge, add lyrics and stir. template that you can mix and match parts from. albums going all the way back to The Crimson Idol if not before. I have found this to be a problem on W.A.S.P. It is a virtual carbon copy of “Dirty Balls” and “Helldorado”, and even the next song “Can’t Die Tonight”. “High on the Flames” kicks ass, but blink for a moment and you might think it’s “Damnation Angels” again. The problem with Helldorado isn’t bad songs, but songs that sound too much alike. “High on the Flames” kicks ass in a mid-tempo groove once again aping the AC/DC template. (When I was a kid, my favourite song was “Big Balls”.) “Dirty balls! Balls! Balls! Is all I need, hang ’em high, oh tonight, so the world can see!” I’m easily amused - all it takes is someone saying “balls” and I’m concealing snickers. really needs is a rock n’ roll riff and a screamy chorus. “Dirty Balls” is otherwise hilarious and smokin’ hot at the same time. Again, Blackie would have been better off leaving something to the imagination. “Dirty Balls” is one such shorty, and it’s fucking awesome. “Damnation Angels” is fittingly the only long song (over six minutes) on an album otherwise composed of shorties. This is a cool song, fitting the slot that a track like “B.A.D.” held on the first album. I’m sure everybody thought it was hilarious when they wrote it and recorded it, but all I hear are old tired cliches turned up to 11, and I don’t mean that in a good way.Ī slower and more ominous mood, akin to “The Razors Edge” by AC/DC, inhabits “Damnation Angels”. There’s nothing wrong with the music (similar to the first track with an Angus Young riff) but the lyrics aren’t justified. There’s something to be said for leaving things to the imagination. “Don’t Cry (Just Suck)” is lyrically as offensive as you’d expect. Either way, I’m on board, but I’m definitely fastening my seatbelt. This blazing fast ride to hell n’ back is plenty fun, even if Blackie is just playing a sped up and more distorted Chuck Berry riff. album, and the production does recollect an earlier era. It’s definitely in the mold of the legendary first W.A.S.P. The record opens with creepy carnival music, motorcycle engines, and a voice asking us if we wanna go now? This goofy opener (called “Drive By”) goes on way too long, but at least the first song up is the purely smoking “Hellodrado”. You can tell by the song titles: “Don’t Cry (Just Suck)” and “Dirty Balls”, for example. Topically, Blackie was done with the messages and concept albums for the moment. In the liner notes, Blackie says that the goal was not to make a record that sounded like their first album, but sounded like their first demos. In 1999, this was W.A.S.P.’s “return to form” album after the industrial-metal of K.F.D. Let’s see how it holds up 16 years after release. Here’s an album I haven’t rocked in a while.
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