Band : Valient Thorr

Album Title : Immortalizer

Label : Volcom

Distributor : Rough Trade

Release Date : 2008

Review : CD

Immortalizer is a tough nut to crack. It's all solid but very crunchy 70s metal rock with pounding rhythms, growling and glam vocals and throbbing guitars with effective and blistering leads. . Valient Thorrnever ventures from their 70s dirty cock roots but they still manage to sound different than the other bands out there. The cool thing about this CA band is that it doesn't fall into any particular niche, which is damn refreshing. To compare them to other bands is not easy, but just listening to the some of the songs “Parable of daedalus”, “I hope the ghosts of the dead haunt yr soul forever”, “Steeplechase”, “Tomorrow police” and “Red flag” we have elements of Ted Nugent, MC5, Thin Lizzy,Maiden, ,Kiss, Motley Crue,… pushing through. The songs here simply kill, displaying a bursting naiveté that is enthralling.

Anyone who likes this style of music should love it, as the grooves on this album are hard to resist.

Go and watch this electrifying kick out the jams band at Graspop (Saturday at 17.00 o’ clock in Metaldome)

85/100

Cosmicmasseur.