GEORGE LYNCH – Kill All Control (2011)

Guitarist George Lynch returns with his latest solo album “Kill All Control”. You know him from the ‘80s with Dokken, and later he formed Lynch Mob.
Over the years, Lynch has maintained a steady release of solo records, while keeping Lynch Mob alive and kicking in various incarnations.
Chances are that a complete Dokken reunion never will happen; however, Lynch doesn’t live in the past. He continues to expand on his fret board wizardry and add to his catalog of music.

Following up on his latest solo project, Souls of We, Lynch, along with vocalist London Legrand (Brides of Destruction) and drummer Adrian Ost (Powerman 5000), wrote together the majority of the music for “Kill All Control”.
The album does feature plenty of high-powered guests, including Cinderella’s Fred Coury on drums who lends his skills to the terrific instrumental song, “Son of Scary”, which tips it hat to the Grammy-nominated ‘Mr. Scary’ from Dokken’s Back for the Attack album release in 1988.
Lynch also falls back to the foundational premise of his 1993 solo album ‘Sacred Groove’, which featured a who’s who of hard rock’s premier vocal talent.

“Kill All Control” features Keith St. John (Montrose, Burning Rain), Will Martin (Earshot), Marq Torien (Bulletboys) together with London Legrand, Souls Of We’s singer.
Burning Rain fans will recognize Keith St. John’s fantastic voice on “Resurrect Your Soul”, “Rattlesnake”, “Man On Fire” and as backing vocals on many other songs on the CD.

“Kill All Control” lives and breathes with Lynch coaxing harmonic screams, melodic phrasing, smooth legato runs and unique chord arrangements from his guitar.
People would really like to hear Lynch shred, but he is truly at home in the vocal-guitar-bass-drums band format. His guitar style allows the music to breathe as his rhythm playing doesn’t dominate or over power the vocals.

In fact, his snake-like slithering approach intertwines within the confines of the music in such a way that he really is shredding throughout the album. He never stays in positions in which he is just hammering out rooted 5th power chords.
His use of all six strings in the rhythmic passages gives the guitar a big, dynamic sound.
The vocalists take their opportunities to lay down stellar vocal performances throughout the album. Keith St. John really shines here.
This eclectic group brings varied genres of rock into the mix and creates nuances that include traditional hard rock, alternative and modern rock.

Lynch’s guitar playing always has included his flair for exotic explorations, which he has expounded and expanded on during his 30-plus years as a musician.
“Kill All Control” mixes classic, 80’s style riffing and soloing with more modern sonic appeals. At times, this works well but at times the songs sound as if Lynch is reaching, trying to ‘fit in’ with the current class of hard rock acts, instead of acting his age and being content to show them how they did it back in his day.

This is a true issue for artists of Lynches era. Is it wrong for them to stretch out, creatively, and attempt to be musically relevant in the modern day?
Of course not, however, they must realize that their core fan base would rather hear killer solos like the one in “Flys On The Wall” than they would hear Mr. Scary try to fit in with the much less talented guitar players of today.
At the end of the day, Lynch can still play his ass off. This one is more Lynch Mob than Dokken but it does lean toward a modern sound in places.
The listener will decide if they like that or not. Let it be known, however, that no matter what the sonic sound of the album may be, Lynch adds killer solos to each tune.
And Rocks.

01 – Kill All Control
02 – Done
03 – Flys on the Wall
04 – Brand New Day
05 – Wicked Witch
06 – Voices in My head
07 – RYS
08 – Rattlesnake
09 – Sun
10 – Man On Fire
11 – My Own Enemy
12 – Son Of Scary (instrumental) *
13 – Go It Alone

George Lynch – Guitars, Bass
Nic Spec – Bass
Adrian Ost – Drums
London Legrand – Vocals
Keith St. John – Vocals
Will Martin – VocalsMarq Torien – Vocals
Fred Coury – guest Drums on *

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