Black Star Riders - The Killer Instinct

[Stefan]

 

 

From blabbermouth.net:

 

BLACK STAR RIDERS will release their seond studio album, "The Killer Instinct", in February 2015 via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to 2013's "All Hell Breaks Loose" was recorded in October at a studio in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Nick Raskulinecz (RUSH, FOO FIGHTERS, ALICE IN CHAINS, MASTODON).

BLACK STAR RIDERS frontman Ricky Warwick stated about the album title: "Life's not fair, never has been, never will. Sometimes you have to live with a killer instinct just to survive in the ongoing pursuit of happiness. Because nobody can do for you what you should be doing for yourself."

The energy in the studio from a year of touring, and BLACK STAR RIDERS gelling as a creative force has resulted in a truly powerful sophomore effort. From the Irish-tinged rock of "Soldierstown" to the balls-out twin guitar riffing of "Sex, Guns & Gasoline", rom the dirty groove of "You Little Liar" to the acoustic "Blindsided", this is a band coming of age.

Says BLACK STAR RIDERS guitarist Damon Johnson: "Nick Raskulinecz came riding out of the sunset like a Viking warrior, with his record collection and arsenal of killer guitars and amplifiers and proved to be the world-class producer we had heard so much about. Indeed, the rumors are all true. There's no doubt that Ricky and I had written a sizable number of songs, but Nick patiently walked through the full song list with the entire band and made sure we focused on the material to best represent BLACK STAR RIDERS in 2015."

"The Killer Instinct" track listing:

01. The Killer Instinct
02. Bullet Blues
03. Finest Hour
04. Soldierstown
05. Charlie I Gotta Go
06. Blindsided
07. Through The Motions
08. Sex, Guns & Gasoline
09. Turn In Your Arms
10. You Little Liar

BLACK STAR RIDERS will head out on a co-headline tour of UK and Ireland with EUROPE throughout March 2015.

BLACK STAR RIDERS were one of the first signings to Nuclear Blast Entertainment by Monte Conner — the A&R guru who signed acts such as SLIPKNOT, MACHINE HEAD, SEPULTURA, and RUSH to Roadrunner. Nuclear Blast Entertainment is a new U.S. partnership co-founded by Conner with Nuclear Blast owner Markus Staiger.

"All Hell Breaks Loose" sold around 2,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The effort landed at position No. 5 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

BLACK STAR RIDERS earlier in the year parted ways with bassist Marco Mendoza and replaced him with Robbie Crane (RATT, VINCE NEIL, LYNCH MOB).

 

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[All Nights Reserved]

At last a Thin Lizzy inspired band.

[Kristian]

Sounds like something off the debut, which is fine by me :-)

[AlphaMale]

Wow.... cool song and great band! Loved the debut.

[KarpetRydOFunk]

I don't know if I'm just tired, but I almost fell asleep in those three and a half minutes. It was pretty boring.

[AlphaMale]

Sounds like Thin Lizzy to me. Big time. And I like that.

[Geoff]

I never heard of the debut or the band before. Didn't realise Ricky Warwick was still doing stuff. I guess I assumed The Almighty were probably still going through the motions in some corner of the world.

 

Anyway, the song is moderately decent. Would never seek this out, but if it fell in my lap I'd probably give it a listen. Very, very subdued kind of song, though. There's something there, but it just sounds by-the-numbers in execution.

[Nightrain]

I think I rated the debut around 72%, guess this new one will not fall far from that, or slightly better maybe

This new song is quite good and fun

[Stefan]

[Jez]

A good, solid album that betters the debut I think. It improves with each listen and has some good tracks 'Blindsided' and 'You Little Liar' are my initial picks, but no real bad ones. Still very Lizzyesque in sound, which is a good thing, so old school classic rock fans should like this one

[Stefan]

Full album:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooOJY0luD4Q

[Stefan]

[Stefan]

[crazynights]

Well maybe this is my favourite album this year. The Poodles and Trixter are the competitors.

[Geoff]

 

I absolutely hate that.