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Seventh Veil are a hard rock band from Verona ,Italy which started out in 2011. “White Trash Attitude” is their first album and after listening to it, I have to say that I would have no problem if it also was their last.
 
It’s not that it’s a crap album but it’s just so damn mediocre that it winds up being unbearable. With a title like “White Trash Attitude” I would expect a little more... well, attitude. I found each and every track in there so flat and generic, they almost irritated me. The riffs, the melodies and the guitar solos are, without any exception, unimaginative and plainly boring.
 

It’s a mystery why some great bands of the 80s, like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Motley Crue and so on, changed their style so much that in some cases it’s hard to believe that they were once on the top. Thankfully, there’s a new generation coming that was raised by listening to the aforementioned bands and got inspired by their attitude & style. Summers is one of those bands that brought in my mind the glorious 80s days from the very first moment I listened to their debut album.
 

That was something that I didn’t expect. I might be a bit biased but I would never think that there was a chance to see a Ukrainian band playing so fine in a (fixed?) US/EU game. But let’s take things form the start, right?
 

Hardcore Superstar is a fairly good band, which belongs on the second sleaze/glam metal wave that started in the late 90s. They may have a few nice songs on all their albums but they had never been a great rival not even for their co-patriots Crashdïet which rocked the world in the mid-00s. No word about a comparison with the big sleaze bands of the 80s!
 

This hard rock act from France is still going on and rockin’ well in any case. Shannon have been around for almost 15 years and this is their 3rd full-length album. In case you haven’t heard of them before, their music is heavily influenced by hard rock bands like: Danger Danger, Firehouse, Tyketto, Gotthard, Jaded Heart, Hardline, White Lion, Fair Warning, Harem Scarem, Talisman, Poison, Motley Crue, XYZ and the list goes on. As you have already understood, Shannon do have quite a few sleaze/glam passages on their songs every now and then as well.
 

Wildside Riot is the new moniker for the ex-Wrathchild vocalist Rocky Shades. Rocky found that there’s actually life after Wrathchild and decided to go his own way with a totally new band. Both Wrathchild and Rocky’s Wildside Riot have embellished their sleaze/glam metal music with (hard) rock and roll elements making it more energetic and rockin’. After all Wrathchild are really the Godfather of glam/sleaze metal music and both they and Rocky have nothing to prove to anyone anymore.