Humbucker
King of the World
Humbucker Records
2014
I was never a big fan of bands like AC/DC or Motorhead in these 23 years of listening to my beloved music, that’s a true story. When a little boy dives from the beginning into the depths of technical styles of metal like I did, sometimes the basics, tend to seem, rather “exotic” at times. As I pushed “play” to start listening to Humbucker’s new album. entitled “King of the World”, I noticed immediately that they are a mix of the above huge bands and especially sound familiar to the Australian’s style with Lemmy’s vocal references. Of course this fact didn’t disturb me at all because hard rock bands like Kix and Johnny Crash played the same style back in the day, and I’ve studied them very well all these years. Humbucker are coming from Norway and they formed in 1998, as a cover band. After many years, in 2012, they recorded and released their first effort called “R.O.C.K.S” and two years later they are back with “King of the World”.
One word is suitable for the whole album… party!! Yes…we’re dealing here with short songs, with a party atmosphere, which probably will make your leg go up and down and your body dance to the rhythm. Songs like “One Size Fits All”, “King of the World”, “Gone Fishing”, “Dirty Nelly”, “Lone Rider”, “Lord have Mercy”, “Hey You!” and “I Did it All (Thank You & Goodnight!)” will rock you to the bone, believe me! Of course there is a ballad included “Harder Being Me”, appropriate for relaxing moments and two bonus tracks, a nice cover of Whitesnake’s “Wine, Women an’ Song” and “Strongman”, in the veins of Sven Gali and Slik Toxik.
In my opinion, Humbucker doesn’t have something new to deliver in the hard rock music scene, because they are a band that plays in an old 80s style, but they are doing it the right way. I was not bored by listening to their album and I have to admit that they entertained me the most. If you need something pleasant to listen that will make you grab your air-guitar, then take the album and play it loud. That’s the meaning of rock n’ roll… after all, isn’t it?
One word is suitable for the whole album… party!! Yes…we’re dealing here with short songs, with a party atmosphere, which probably will make your leg go up and down and your body dance to the rhythm. Songs like “One Size Fits All”, “King of the World”, “Gone Fishing”, “Dirty Nelly”, “Lone Rider”, “Lord have Mercy”, “Hey You!” and “I Did it All (Thank You & Goodnight!)” will rock you to the bone, believe me! Of course there is a ballad included “Harder Being Me”, appropriate for relaxing moments and two bonus tracks, a nice cover of Whitesnake’s “Wine, Women an’ Song” and “Strongman”, in the veins of Sven Gali and Slik Toxik.
In my opinion, Humbucker doesn’t have something new to deliver in the hard rock music scene, because they are a band that plays in an old 80s style, but they are doing it the right way. I was not bored by listening to their album and I have to admit that they entertained me the most. If you need something pleasant to listen that will make you grab your air-guitar, then take the album and play it loud. That’s the meaning of rock n’ roll… after all, isn’t it?