• New Music Reviews
• |
• Archives
• |
• News
• |
• Submissions
• |
• About
• |
• 
• |
• 

December 2024

• After Lapse: Pathways
• Illusion Force: Halfana
• Powell-Payne: Voilá

November 2024

• Sunstorm: Restless Fight
• Storace: Crossfire
• Voodoo Circle: Hail To The King
• Lionville: Supernatural
• Starchaser: Into The Great Unkown
• Empires Of Eden: Guardians Of Time
• Lonerider: Down In The Dust
• Seventh Crystal: Entity
• Neal Morse & The Resonance: No Hill For A Climber
• Beardfish: Songs For Beating Hearts
• Impellitteri: War Machine
• Brothers Of Metal: Fimbulvinter

October 2024

• Casandra's Crossing: Garden Of Earthly Delights
• DGM: Endless
• Daytona: Garder la Flamme
• Fate: Reconnect 'N Ignite
• Frost*: Life In The Wires
• Aries Descendant: From The Ashes Of Deceit
• Fans Of The Dark: Video
• Radioactive: Reset
• House Of Lords: Full Tilt Overdrive
• Cleanbreak: We Are The Fire

September 2024

• Sinner's Blood: Dark Horizons
• Serious Black: Rise Of Akhenaton
• Eclipse: Megalomanium II
• SteelCity: Reverence
• Hydra: ReHydrated
• Heartwind: III
• Gabrielle De Val and the Dragonlords: Tiger
• Find Me: Nightbound
• The Nail: The Nail
• Timeless Fairytale: A Story To Tell
• Stryper: When We Were Kings
• Phil Mogg: Moggs Motel
• Pure Reason Revolution: Coming Up To Consciousness
• Jordan Rudess: Permission To Fly

August 2024

• Siege Perilous: Creation's Call EP
• Paralydium: Universe Calls
• Mike Tramp: Songs Of White Lion Vol. II
• Bite The Bullet: Looking For Paradise
• All For Metal: Gods Of Metal (Year Of The Dragon)
• Hammerfall: Avenge The Fallen
• Jim Peterik & World Stage: Roots & Shoots Vol. 2

[ More Music Reviews ]

Tigertailz: Knives (EP)

Melodic Hard Rock

4.0/5.0

Website Facebook Twitter
Scarlet Records
by Craig Hartranft
10.16.2013

They may be better than 25 years removed the Eighties scene, but you can't take the glam out of Tigertailz, one of the UK's best and most promising glam/sleaze bands. The band resurfaced back in 2005, cut a few albums, including the previously unreleased Wazbones, but then, in 2007, lost a friend in bassist Justin Smith aka Pepsi Tate. Now we have another return with the EP Knives.

Tigertailz: on the set of Shoe Collector video.

It's five songs of pure and classic melodic hard rock in the glam/sleaze tradition. There's mucho rock groove, a pinch of snotty punk attitude, strong melodies, tight gang vocal harmonies, and darn right catchy hooks in lyrics and arrangements.

There's the somewhere between corny and creepy Shoe Collector, perhaps the heaviest, and dirtiest sleaze, song here (watch the video below) with big riffs and those gang vocals. One Life steals a page from the Skid Row ballad book merging catch melodic rock with acoustic guitar and synths. Spit It Out returns once more to straight hard rock with more accessible lyrics. Both Bite The Hand and Punched In The Gutz, the two best songs here, are the amalgamation of all those aforementioned characteristics. Huge groove meets some really catchy lyrics, with the latter steering more towards a metal rocker.

It's all the stuff that made you poodle your hair (if you had some, which wasn't me) with AquaNet and break out the torn jeans and denim, patched up, vest back in the day. It's all good, but you want more. It's time for Tigertailz to offer another complete album. Recommended.

Tigertailz - Shoe Collector (Official)

Note: All Amazon advertising in this review first benefits the artist, then Craig Hartranft also receives a residual. Click, and thanks for your support.

Knives is all the stuff that made you poodle your hair (if you had some which wasn't me) with AquaNet, and break out the torn jeans and denim patched up vest back in the day.

Alphabetical Index

The Powell Payne project, created in 2022 is the collaboration of Mark "Penfold Powell (ex-drummer of Psycho Kiss) and Adam Payne (former vocalist of Airrace). With guitarist Adam Davies and keyboard player ... [ Read More ]