ONCE UPON A TIME.....All Hell Breaks Loose

 


     On the one hand, it's noble of Scott Gorham to rename his Lynott-less version of Thin Lizzy for the purposes of a recording career. On the other, given that the music they make would fit snugly on to a late-70s Lizzy album – right down to singer Ricky Warwick's inflections and asides – it seems a little self-defeating. The stand-out is the most Lizzyesque song, Bound for Glory, with one of those twin lead guitar lines kicking into a riff filled with empty space: it's like 1976 all over again. Conversely, the worst song is where they take things too far and step outside Lizzydom: Kingdom of the Lost revs up the Celtic folk influence nicely, then charges into a boozealong chorus more suited to one of those aggressively Irish punk bands from the US. Between those two poles falls plenty of enjoyable melodic hard rock, never poor, though not always scaling the heights. But then Thin Lizzy were never the most consistent of studio bands, so maybe that's fitting.

TRACKLIST : All Hell Breaks Loose
                          Bound For Glory
                          Kingdom Of The Lost
                          Bloodshot
                          Kissin' The Ground
                          Hey Judas
                          Hoodoo Voodoo
                          Valley Of The Stones
                          Someday Salvation
                          Before The War
                          Blues Ain't So Bad
                          Right To Be Wrong

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