LIZZY BORDEN – Menace To Society [Digitally Remastered +4]

LIZZY BORDEN is after 11 years of studio silence with a new album, and one of you asked for the band’s classic ’80s albums in its remastered edition.
“Menace To Society” is the band’s second album, balancing the US metal flare of their origins with a much more polished approach.

If you take a look at the cover artwork to this album and saw a bunch of guys with weapons and poodle hair, you’d be thinking that you were looking at an ’80s glam metal record from the era.
Don’t write these guys off as such, though, ‘cos they sound completely different. In fact, they don’t sound anything like a hair metal band at all.

They’re a group of guys that, while presenting a shocking image and stage-horror shows, actually put more focus on their own music rather than desperately trying to stick with the trends.
Press play and listen to the opening track, “Generation Aliens”, and you’ll immediately be blown away. After the intro, it blasts off with a fast and aggressive-sounding hook, metallic, in your face.

Other songs on this album that share this trait are “Stiletto (Voice of Command)” and “Brass Tactics”. The former in particular proves that the band has sort of a British metal influence as its main riff features a harmonic riff with both guitarists playing a flurry of notes.
“Brass Tactics” begins with a march-like drum-roll followed by an epic, harmonic intro that leads into the speedy, aggressive main riff.

There is the theme of horror in “Bloody Mary”, a song which, while it’s slower-paced, is not really a ballad at all, for it has more of an eerie feel to it. It’s a song that feels more like a horror flick rather than a romance film, and the lyrics help give it that atmosphere.
And then there’s “Notorious”, where the lyrics are sung from the point of view of a cruel, relentless dictator, said dictator is most likely to be Caesar, since his name is mentioned several times.

Ever heard the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover”? Well, Lizzy Borden demonstrates that here with “Menace To Society”. It’s a powerful, ripping album of hooky American metal.
It’s not to pristine as its successor, Visual Lies, or so compelling as Master Of Disguise, but rocks like Hell.
This remaster improved the original with more dynamics, and there’s some bonus tracks for collectors.

01 – Generation Aliens
02 – Notorius
03 – Terror On The Town
04 – Bloody Mary
05 – Stiletto (Voice Of Command)
06 – Ultra-Violence
07 – Love Kills
08 – Brass Tactics
09 – Ursa Minor
10 – Menace To Society
BONUS TRACKS:
11 – Taking Over The World [Demo]
12 – White Rabbit [Demo]
13 – Stiletto (Voice Of Command) [Demo]
14 – Betrayer [Demo]

Lizzy Borden – Vocals
Gene Allen – Guitars
Alex Nelson – Guitars, Backing Vocals
Mike Davis – Bass
Joey Scott Harges – Drums

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