The Rocket Dolls are a new three piece grungy rock band who have overcome a lot of adversity to bring us the band's debut album that includes among other troubles the singer has had Pneumonia and E.coli and several operations for Osteoarthritis and they have a drummer who may well be related to a member of Dire Straits, please don't let that last fact put you off as they sound nothing like that thankfully.
This album starts by jumping out the speakers with Poisoned Speech a bass riff heavy tune whose grinding guitars ramp up the anger at the idiots poisoned speech. Can't Keep Him Down is good and angry and crunching punk metal song a bit Hardcore Superstar meets the better end of Duff McKagan's Loaded.
Delirium (Reprise) is all sort of Velvet Revolver style hard rock that makes me hope this lot can do it live as if so they can certainly build a decent following. The Rope Pulls Sins has a furious drum intro that leads to a good angry rant of a song that has a strange System Of a Down feel to bits of it.
Burning Up The Skies is the slow building monumental monster of a sort of love song. Eyes slows things down a bit and with this sort of heavy rock that isn't always a good thing. Waste has good lyrics and a decent riff but is a little too identikit modern punk metal for its own good until the guitar solo that is pretty damn good kicks in. It sounds like it will be a real sing along live.
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I Can't go Back carries on the formula and is a decent hard rocking tune that's a bit Zico Chain meets Monster Magnet. I'm Just Too Weak is decent enough but I'm starting to find this album a bit repetitive I'm waiting for something to jump out and sound a bit different.
Gotta Get A Grip has some decent stop start dynamics as it sort of lurches around trying to get a grip on where this should go next and seem to think a cool break down before some heavy riffing is the way to go and I won't argue with that. Across the night that closes the album almost sounds like a different band for the opening 30 seconds before the riff comes bludgeoning in and normal service is sort of resumed with interludes of almost Banshees style goth rock but with a bloke singing and then some heavy riffing to finish off in a welter of guitars.
Not a bad modern metal album but it really lacks a stand out track or anything that makes them sound distinctive in a crowded field. https://www.facebook.com/therocketdolls
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