Orange Goblin

Rough & Ready, Live & Loud BANDCAMP

Brit-metal grease monkeys in their hairy-arsed glory.

Is it really 25 years since Orange Goblin burst on to the British metal scene, belching booze and fire? Apparently so. This wartsand-even-more-warts live album has been released via Bandcamp to mark the Londoners’ Silver Jubilee. For a band who were built to collapse in a puddle of their own vomit, that’s some going.

The Goblin have never made any bones about their love of Motörhead, and Rough & Ready is their No Sleep Til Hammersmith. The spirit of Lemmy flows through the outlaw boogie of Sons Of Satan and The Wolf Bites Back, singer Ben Ward gargling like the old warrior reborn.

If you’re expecting a pristine 5.1 surround-sound experience, then you’re in the wrong place. But if you’re after swashbuckling heavy metal made by rock’n’roll biker-pirates who are as ugly as the day they were born and proud of it, sign right here. Nobody does it better. ■■■■■■■■■■