{"id":11690,"date":"2013-08-16T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:52:18","slug":"album-review-black-star-riders-all-hell-breaks-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=11690","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Black Star Riders – All Hell Breaks Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Black Star Riders \u2013All Hell Breaks Loose
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> May 28, 2013
\nHighlights:<\/strong> Bound for Glory, Kingdom of the Lost, Kissing the Ground, Hey Judas, Valley of the Stones, Someday Salvation, Before the War, Blues Ain\u2019t So Bad<\/p>\n

In 2010, Thin Lizzy impossibly resurfaced with a new singer\/guitarist (Ricky Warwick), and former Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham, original drummer Brian Downey, and longtime keyboard player Darren Wharton.\u00a0 The band was rounded out by bassist Marco Mendoza and guitarist Damon Johnson and they toured pretty extensively for the better part of 3 years on the European festival circuit as Thin Lizzy.\u00a0 This line up was met with a lot of fan acclaim but at the same time many fans of former and long gone leader Phil Lynott shouted \u201ctravesty\u201d from the mountain tops.\u00a0 How can these guys go out as Thin Lizzy when the heart and soul of this band was not even around anymore?<\/p>\n

I have a lot of mixed emotions behind this but in the long run, it wasn\u2019t like an all orginal band going out with just a new singer or what not.\u00a0 You\u2019re talking about a band that had only ONE original member and couple of guys who were in the band later on in the band\u2019s career.\u00a0 Singer\/guitarist Ricky Warwick did an amazing job but it all just felt like a Thin Lizzy cover band and just when I was about to write them off, something very amazing and honorable happened.\u00a0 Scott Gorham announced that he truly didn\u2019t like going out with the Thin Lizzy moniker (it was a management\/business decision) and that the band would be making some changes and going forward as Black Star Riders.<\/p>\n

In a move very reminiscent to Heaven & Hell (Dio era Sabbath under a new moniker that played only Dio era Sabbath songs), the safe moniker of Thin Lizzy was dropped and a new name and identity has been adopted.\u00a0 Why is this risky?\u00a0 Well, the guys could\u2019ve continued to rake in the bucks as a touring nostalgia act living off of the name and legacy of Thin Lizzy.\u00a0 Why is this admirable?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s admirable because the guys obviously struck up a relationship that made them want to move forward as an original band with their songs, their own name, and their own identity.\u00a0 The result of this move is the debut album from Black Star Riders called All Hell Breaks Loose.<\/p>\n

So first off, guess who this album sounds like?\u00a0 You guessed it\u2026 THIN LIZZY.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 That\u2019s ok.\u00a0 Warwick has been sounding like Phil Lynott since his days in his former band The Almighty so it\u2019s not really a surprise that he got picked to front this band.\u00a0 The fact that these guys took it to another level and decided to make some new, original music made it easier for me to go into listening to this album and boy am I ever glad I did.\u00a0 Black Star Riders knocked it out of the park with this album in my opinon by delivering a fun, melodic, freewheeling rock n\u2019 roll record that would have Phil Lynott himself looking and saying, \u201cNow you\u2019ve got it mates.\u00a0 Carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing super ground breaking about this record and in all honesty, it\u2019s not the kind of record you would listen to for some deep, introspective music.\u00a0 This is a band capturing the spirit of good times had with great friends, drinking after hours in a park, and just getting into all kinds of mischief only to write and sing about it 20 years later.\u00a0 All Hell Breaks Loose is the kind of album that makes an old guy feel young again.\u00a0 It makes you close your eyes, think of that girl you used to fancy and maybe even steal a kiss with from time to time as a huge smile crosses your face.\u00a0 Black Star Riders set out to make a great, solid rock n\u2019 roll record and they did just that.\u00a0 Yeah, they sound like Thin Lizzy.\u00a0 Get over it.\u00a0 I can think of a million worse things you could say about this band.\u00a0 As far as I\u2019m concerned, Black Star Riders have the right to sound like whomever the fuck they want because they are making music on their own terms now and in all honesty, I hope the keep doing so for a long time to come.<\/p>\n

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