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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
These girls may just kick your teeth in!, April 29, 2008
Clearly influenced by bands like the Runaways and Girlschool, Swedish all-girl quartet Crucified Barbara plays hard edged, no-frills, punk infused rock & roll.
2005's In Distortion We Trust is the band's debut album. It's a fast, heavy, and dirty blast of hard rock with punk aggression. Throw Motorhead and the Ramones in a blender with L7 and Babes in Toyland and you'll have some idea of Crucified Barbara's sound. There are some good melodies here, but overall the album maintains a hard hitting abrasive rock sound. This is not a case of "they rock pretty hard for a bunch of chicks". They rock hard, period.
If you've been missing down n' dirty, pretension-free rock & roll lately, you're going to want to hear this album. You should also look into bands like Bullets and Octane, Fatal Smile (also from Sweden), and Airbourne. They're bringing rock back, big time.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Rawk rockers from Sweden announce their presence, November 5, 2006
My intro to this band came at The Gaelic Club in Sydney, Australa - a real toilet of a venue. But as soon as they appeared on stange - no make that strode onto the stage - the girls of Crucified Barbara blew all the bad vibes away. So of course I had to get the album!
With plenty of thirsty riffs, a love of rock'n'roll and a serious case of missionary zeal in their playing this is a great album. It lived in my car stereo for weeks and makes regular visits to my stereo due to the following qualities;
- a no frills approach to a committed form of hard rock
- catchy as hell rhythms and an amusin, down to earth lyrical approach
- clean production values
This band - inevitably - drew interest due to their all girl line up but to tell the truth both live and on record it's pretty irrelevant as this is purely and simply a good time rawk rock band though lyrically us blokes do get told off a bit (and probably deservedly so!). A great band and a fun time album and they stand utterly outside the whole female fronted goth metal schtick which is a breath of fresh air.
Totally recommended
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
These Girls Can Rock, July 26, 2009
I don't have much to say other than this is a truly exceptional album. With so much garbage out there, it's refreshing to buy a CD that one can actually enjoy listening to again & again. Anyone who doubts girls, and cute ones at that, can play metal needs to hear this.
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