Turbosnake – Cold Blooded
Release Date: 30th July 2021
Label: RFL Records
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Genre: Arena Rock, Hard Rock, Hair Metal, Glam.
FFO: Firehouse, Skid Row, Spread Eagle, Steelheart, TNT.
Review By: Snidely Whiplash
HELLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO ROCK MUSIC FANS! Snidely Whiplash back again for the metalepidemic.com review hotseat. Ooooo yeah, it’s a nice hot day and we’ve got some bands to put on the hotseat and see what you think of them. As you well know, Snidely loves his rock on the hair band, glam, and good times more than the chuga chuga, or screamo edge. This band sits right in there baby. Let’s take a good, close look!
ALRIGHT! Let’s jump right in. This is definitely good time rock ‘n roll for those of us who still love that glam band feel. This is a band I can definitely get into and hear as I cruise down the backroads and rock out. I hear one issue right off the bat that I’ve given other bands a ton of stuff about, and this band is going to get it too. They have similar sounds to other bands. So similar that I can pick out songs they were influenced by. That’s a big issue with any band, but fortunately they only did it for a song or two and not the whole thing. From the very first song, I was ready to rock along. Turbo Lovers is a grooving, steady rocker. Gas Grass and Ass is pretty much right off of Steelheart and sounds just like Sticky Side Up. It’s a fun song, but I couldn’t let that go. Road Warrior has that blistering groove that is very cool, with a Saigon Kick feel to start. This band has a variety that I dig. I’m definitely head-banging my way through this one.
Musically this band really reminds me of Tell No Tales. Man, it’s making me want to break those old CDs out and hear them too. They also remind me of Trixter a little as well. Which makes me both laugh and cringe a little bit. They manage to walk that edge between rock and cheese very well. They pepper every song with killer guitars, solid bass and drums, and even a few keyboards on there. Every song shows a different sense of feel, from the grungy Road Warrior to the slightly humorous Drinkin’ Tunes. This band sits very solidly in the genre of those fun, dirty bands of the days we long haired, glam rockers miss. The singer has that high, scratchy voice that calls back to cool singers like Dangerous Toys. I’m all in.
Overall this band has a decent range for an 80’s style, hair/glam band. The last song Pit Viper is pretty much dead on Danger Zone from that Tom Cruise movie that was famous back in the day, but I read an interview where they said it was supposed to be. So I can’t really dig into them for that one, since it wasn’t an accident. That being said, a couple of songs definitely remind me of other bands from back in the day, to a point where I could sing those songs over the ones I was hearing. This didn’t happen on every song, but it did happen on half of them. The only other thing I can say is that I wish I had more to check out. Overall a good display of hard rock, played by a very good band.
(3.5 / 5)
