Shotgun Mistress – Shotgun Mistress
Release Date: 16th July 2021
Label: Crusader Records
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Genre: Rock, Hard Rock.
FFO: Electric Mary, The Treatment, Cicadastone, Steel Dragon.
Review By: Snidely Whiplash
HELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOO boys and girls! Snidely Whiplash back in the metalepidemic.com review hotseat! As always, giving you the thrillers, the killers, the drillers, and the … well, honest opinions that you are hopefully digging. Let’s jump in and find out who’s on the hotseat today!
Today we have to pop a shrimp on the barby and roll down under for some fresh rock and roll from the Aussie group Shotgun Mistress. Right off the bat we have the hard rocking, groove bomb called Born N’ Raised. Yeah baby. What a great way to start it up. Killer riffs and drums pumping it right up from the top. I like it! These guys remind me of Steel Dragon. Yeah the group from the movie Rockstar. The next track, Devil In Disguise, rocks just like the song Blood Pollution from that soundtrack. Still loving it! I get six songs in and it is STILL rocking my ass off! The feels are getting a little similar. In fact, the whole thing keeps up the pace for twelve songs, and then we hit a slower ballad. Weird. I’d love to have been on a roller coaster so that I got a little breather from the similar pace of the songs in the beginning. But hey, that’s me I guess.
The guitars are definitely killer, ranging from the Steel Dragon feel to Eric Gales, to even Nuno Bettencourt style rhythms. The solos burn for sure as well. Matt Willcock can definitely shred whenever he wants, and even better, is a killer rhythm guitar player. The riffs are chunky and tasty. The drums are awesome, from the intros to the main beats, “Diamond” David Lee can play. Ben Curnow holds down the bass very well, following on the blistering riffs like Collide when needed, and backing down to the root when necessary. Good stuff. Glenn Patrick has that lower ranged voice just like the main character from Steel Dragon, and hits quite a few of the highs as well. Gotta love his voice. He gets a chance to shine here and there. The only issue is that most of the songs have a similar feel.
Overall, I wish there was a little more variety in the song styles. The beats are awesome, but very close in tempo from start to finish of the whole CD. The ending being the only real balad on there is a little awkward. But then ol’ Snidely likes to hear a concert on every album. Start with a hitter, take me on an up and down ride, then dump me at the exit with a banger to leave me wanting more. This is banger, banger, banger, banger, and so on, until I get a softer balady song to end it. Weird feel to me, but again, that’s me.
(3.5 / 5)
