ASOMVEL

World Shaker

HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS

Harrogate veterans pen another round of trad metal anthems

World Shaker is only Asomvel’s third album in 26 years, founding member and guitarist Lenny Robinson having soldiered on throughout countless line-up changes and the tragic death of co-founding bassist and vocalist Jay Jay Winter in 2010. Undeterred, Asomvel continue to forge onward with their greasy speedball of rock’n’roll and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in the vein of Motörhead and Girlschool, iron-clad with determination and a ‘fuck you’ attitude undimmed since the band’s early days of jamming on their local pig farm. World Shaker delivers more fast’n’loose, gritty, no-frills heavy metal, full of bluesy licks, swagger and goodtime rock ’n’roll abandon that will no doubt add to the band’s still-growing cult status. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Motörhead, Venom, Girlschool the wit and farce that made its source material so endearing. In their place are by-the-book riffs clashing with misplaced attempts at commercialisation. While the lead single, Blackened Call, is a barrage of harmonic Satanism, The Crowned Daughters has acoustic verses weirdly akin to Ghost, but throughout the album searches for an identity with all the grace of a drunkard stumbling home from the pub. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Dissection, Emperor, Dark Tranquillity