Mutoid Man - War Moans (Sargent House) 2017
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The beauty of Mutoid Man lays on the fact that their music is so urgent, so energetic, and so captivating that labels like super group and side-project all of a sudden didn’t have a space to exist. Two years after their beloved debut album, Bleeder, the power-trio fronted by Steve Brodsky returns in a rather spectacular fashion – when you have master shredder Marty Friedman to play on your opening track and it sounds THAT good you know you’re ahead in the game. War Moans is NWOBHM’s epic, extremely frantic and gnarly, progressive, but most importantly a rock record devoid of any pretentiousness that actual sounds vital and is worth for all its different-sounding pieces.