HEAVEN THE AXE – Sex, Chugs And Rock ‘N’ Roll (2012)
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Take a sexy hot blonde lead singer (who actually can sing), surround her with big ugly looking guys who just happen to be some of the best heavy music instrumentalists in Australia, throw-in a bunch of supercharged hard rock tunes and you have the beast that is HEAVEN THE AXE, whom have released their debut aptly titled “Sex, Chugs & Rock’N’Roll”.
The band features former members of Aussie metal acts The Amenta, Damaged and The Berzerker, so these boys can seriously play hard rock riffs. And at front we have Phoebe Pinnock, who delivers sassy, kick ass vocals injected with rocket fuel, raw and honest in her attack.
Heaven The Axe displays different personalities throughout the album from high-energy hard rock songs to ballads. Phoebe is truly the focus in this band, delivering a wide range and depth vocals with a real in-your-face kind of attitude attached to it.
Opening track “Enemy” sports one ball tearer of a riff with subsequent guitar squeals, driving bass and drums, and front woman Phoebe Pinnock’s vocals giving us a good taste of what the disc is all about.
The chugging riffs are meaty and consistent throughout the entire album, as shown later on the dirty stomper “Electric Wire”, the razor sharp “So Nirvana” and the breaks in “Glue” where the song pulls back in the bridge, before the ascending bass notes build to an explosive ending.
The acoustic intro to “Unconditional Love” gives the cd a good change up. It’s an epic rock song that builds on the back of electric guitar and strong vocals, with the warm bass giving it feeling throughout the peaks and valleys of the journey that the track takes us on.
‘Sex Chugs And Rock-N-Roll’ is an solid modern hard rock album with a metal edge, and if their live shows share half as much energy as the CD has, they would be an amazing act to see.
Hard Rock enthusiasts who like Baby Animals or Halestorm to name some references are going to dig this album; sharp hard riffs mixed with Phoebe Pinnock’s sexy but powerful rock-chick voice.
On the outside this disc could be easily written off as hard rock chick metal, with a semi naked Phoebe on the back cover and guys drinking and gambling, but on closer inspection you realise that the songs have real substance and are cleverly written & arranged with that ‘chug chug’ effect.
Well done.
01 – Enemy
02 – Masochist
03 – Electric Wire
04 – So Nirvana
05 – Glue
06 – Get Your Devil To Do It
07 – Unconditional Love
08 – Tails To You (bonus track)
Phoebe Pinnock – Vocals
Mat Silcock – Guitars
Steve Watts – Guitars
Tim Aldridge – Bass
Tom Rossell – Drums
BUY IT !
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