Year : 2020
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Wales
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 148 mb
Bio:
Band founded in 2016.From three-plus decades as Motörhead’s axeman to being voted number 20 in the pole of top 100 Welsh Heroes (comfortably beating JPR Williams, Roald Dahl and Sir Anthony Hopkins) to covering a Norweigian promoter in squirty cheese, Pontypridd-born Campbell continues to live life to the fullest with guitar in hand and humour intact.Growing up admiring the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iommi and Jimmy Page, Campbell was playing professionally at the age of 13 with cabaret band Contrast on the Welsh club circuit. He bought his first Les Paul in 1973, and only 5 years later (in 1978!) he formed popular heavy metal indie band Persian Risk. Spending several years gigging with Risk, in February 1984 Campbell auditioned for the vacant guitar slot in popular beat group Motörhead. He ended up sharing guitar duties with fellow auditionee (and partner-in-cheap-laughs) Michael Würzel Burston.In a 32 year Motörcareer which spanned three drummers, the departure of Würzel and the appearance of a horse onstage, Campbell was a major creative force and identity for the legendary rockers, selling millions of albums, filling dozens of passports and finding fun and games wherever he went. With 16 studio albums under his belt, Campbell has co-written some of Motörhead’s most-loved songs, including “Orgasmatron”, “Going To Brazil” and “Rock Out”. In fact, since joining the band, Campbell has co-written 90% of Motörhead’s studio output. He has also enjoyed various accolades, including 4 Grammy nominations and one Grammy win (in 2005), two Golden God awards from Metal Hammer magazine, a Kerrang! award, an official proclamation from the City of Los Angeles in August 2015, and a grand total of 16 speeding fines. Bear in mind that Phil is also El Presedente of the Campbell Comedy Corporation.Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, featuring Campbell alongside his three sons Todd (guitar), Dane (drums), Tyla (bass) and complemented by vocalist Neil Starr have stepped up their touring activities in 2016 and performed a blinder at Europe’s oldest, most prestigious metal festival, Wacken on August 3rd. Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons have just completed work on a self titled EP, which will be released in November 2016 by UDR Records.
Album:
There is not much a band can do when there is no touring, especially if you consider that this situation has gone for longer than everyone was expecting to (or should I say hoping for). Most of the musicians who have been following the album release/touring cycle must have been feeling in their bones this gap in their life. The question is what to do; wait until normality has been restored, or try to make the best out of it. For the latter, a band has to be able to remain inspired and hungry to create new music and give the fans something to hold on. Oh yeah, for many, music is a lifeline, and if you think about it, is a way to keep our community alive and ready to fill the venues whenever this happens. PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS is a band that was not meant to be a studio act, simply because the MOTÖRHEAD gene is a dominant one, and therefore needs to be onstage. Phil Campbell’s extended family, with Neil Starr being the “adopted son”, entered the studio and hammered “We’re The Bastards” that should not be a surprise that lives and breathes to be played live.The Phil-trademark guitar rhythm has the Rock ’n’ Roll groove we have learned to love from his six-string. Neil starts singing the title track, and the lyrics “Music is medicine, music is therapy” will immediately put a smile on your face and a grin of agreement. That’s right, fellow Rock ‘n’ Rollers; music is our medicine, and maybe we are the bastards, as the title track states. This one is an ode to what this music is all about and how it brings everyone together, not giving a flying shit where you come from, or what the color of your skin is. That’s right; we are part of the crew; and of course there is a connection with what Lemmy was saying in “(We Are) The RoadCrew”. It should not be a surprise that PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS share the same mentality with MOTÖRHEAD but not in a “want to sound like that” way. In fact, in this album, the band has been expanding its sound, but more about this later, because the bass doodle in “Son Of A Gun” will hit all the right spots, and you will be looking for a cold one to match the fast riff-driven rhythm and the killer guitar fills. You should pay attention to the lyrics too, because Neil has practically taken a snapshot of what’s going on around us in these “always streaming” days.The groovier “Promises Are Poison” and especially “Born To Roam” carry an almost American Hard Rock breeze that I have to say fits the album’s Rock ‘n’ Roll like maple syrup on pancakes. In case you might think that Phil and Co. have decided to take the band on the other side of the Atlantic, you should think again, because songs like “Animals” (oh yeah, with that rhythm guitar) or the mid-tempo “Keep Your Jacket On” will put your mind at ease and your head into headbanging mode. The sound production is spot-on, simply because it feels like you are in the front row watching the band storming the setlist at maximum volume. Listen how the guitar starts on “Riding Straight To Hell” or the amp feed on the Punk-esque “Destroyed” set the mood for the next two minutes-long of adrenaline rush. Is there some MOTÖRHEAD in there too? You bet there is, and it’s topped off by the backing vocals that will invite you to raise the middle finger to whom this may concern [sic] as you sing-along “don’t wanna listen to a word you say, we say fuck you”. If this isn’t therapeutic to sing out loud, I dunno what is... And it ties with what I was saying about music being a powerful lifeline. “Waves” closes the album after six and a half minutes, and once the Rock ‘n’ Roll dust has settle, you will notice how much artistic room this band has to grow and evolve. This bass-driven song and the subtle orchestration bring along some sweet nostalgia (I have no better words to describe this) and, in a way, gives you some time to cool off after “Destroyed”. The guitar leads add another layer to make this mid-tempo and emotional-charged song that goes heavier during its climax-drum-kick ending.In lieu of concerts, PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS took all the bottled-up frustration and energy and put together an album that is a promise of how things will go down once this situation has become past news. Bands need this as much as we do and therefore buying new music is the best way to keep the amps plugged in, until we meet again inside venues and in festivals’ grounds.
Line-Up:
Phil Campbell (guitar)
Todd Campbell (guitar)
Dane Campbell (drums)
Tyla Campbell (bass)
Neil Starr (vocals)
Tracklist:
01. We're The Bastards
02. Son Of A Gun
03. Promises Are Poison
04. Born To Roam
05. Animals
06. Bite My Tongue
07. Desert Song
08. Keep Your Jacket On
09. Lie To Me
10. Riding Straight To Hell
11. Hate Machine
12. Destroyed
13. Waves
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