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› Viking Skull – Chapter Two
› Filthy Note
Several years ago in a tent in a field on the outskirts of Plymouth I was first infected by the delicious metal brew delivered by mighty merchants of British Metal Viking Skull. They took an unsuspecting audience by the (Viking) horns and turned a family festival into a rabid metal zone with a frenzied mosh pit breaking out seeing even mothers and daughters locked together in metal combat. By the end of the set I found myself scaling the tents main pole screaming like a deranged banshee about beer, drugs and of course bitches.
Since that memorable night I have followed the Skull with interest completely adoring Chapter One and falling in love with follow up Born in Hell. After a few line up changes and a quite period in there normally heavy schedule the Skull have returned with the aptly named Chapter Two and it was with excitement I got my hands on a copy a week ago. Opening number Blackened Sunrise kicks off the album in fine style with Roddy Stones throaty rasp bellowing out the lyrics in fine style, but then it all sort of goes wrong.
The following tracks all seem to be Viking Skull by numbers that just plod along and go nowhere fast. The lyrical humour seems to have been stripped out of the band, the drumming seems flat and uninspired and the fun, that to me made this band so essential has disappeared, making them sound like any other second rate Euro Metal band.
It hurts me to say this but Viking Skull really need to work out what they really are all about, rediscover the slag magnet, get out with some fat slappers and dirty mingers, drink some beer take some drugs and get back to the roots of the band that plastered a cheesy grin across the face of me and so many others.
4/10
Nige.
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