{"id":5618,"date":"2019-05-03T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2019-05-27T22:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T22:09:05","slug":"the-rods-brotherhood-of-metal-steamhammer-spv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5618","title":{"rendered":"The Rods – \u2018Brotherhood Of Metal\u2019 (Steamhammer\/SPV)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ahh The Rods, now there\u2019s a band name that instantly gets the musical memory banks whirring. To my teenage self way back in 1981 the band\u2019s awesome self-titled debut on Arista was an instant hit on my turntable, and I admit I only went to see Iron Maiden on their Beast On The Road tour to check out the support band.<\/p>\n

Yup the New York trio were a veritable whirlwind of great tunes and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll attitude long before rock music fractured into multiple genres and forced stereotypes, The Rods were unclassifiable in my eyes as they simply played great hard rocking guitar music just like say Starz, The Godz or The Boyzz in fact all they were missing was a Z to end their name.<\/p>\n

It was only when they signed for Music For Nations here in the UK and then pledged an allegiance to all things metal that my interest started to wane and their mid-80s LPs simply didn\u2019t excite me in the same way that their younger contemporaries records did. A planned UK headline tour with Metallica and Exciter in support \u00a0which was ultimately cancelled was pretty much the last I heard of the band until 2010 when through the power of Uber Rock and Myspace I suddenly found myself talking with the band\u2019s singer\/guitarist David \u2018Rock\u2019 Feinstein about their then just about to be released reunion CD \u2018Vengeance\u2019.<\/p>\n

Fast forward eight years from that album\u2019s eventual release and here I am in possession of the band\u2019s all new eleven track album \u2018Brotherhood Of Metal\u2019 (the vinyl adding a twelfth track in the shape of a reworked version of \u2018Crank It Up\u2019 originally featured on the aforementioned Arista album plus of course covered by legendary supergroup Super$hit 666), and whilst I normally stay well clear of metal albums these days getting to grips with this one was actually a most welcome surprise.<\/p>\n

Okay granted it\u2019s not exactly the sound of my \u201880s first love but it is the same line up of Feinstein, drummer Carl Cannedy and bassist Garry Bordonaro and whilst Dave may be singing slightly lower than he did back then what The Rods do here they do with the utmost of integrity. Even when the record opens with the title track and it\u2019s just piano and Feinstein declaring his love for all things metal it\u2019s somehow not got me reaching for the skip button, and I\u2019m glad I stuck with it too because what follows is the kind of metal record that has seen Judas Priest filling arenas with for decades. Yes, there\u2019s a hint of Manowar in here too, but thank Odin the likes of \u2018Hell On Earth\u2019 and \u2018Tonight We Rode\u2019 remind me of their early (as in the best) days, and you also can\u2019t really do a Rods review without mentioning Feinstein\u2019s cousin Ronnie James Dio, although I\u2019m purely mentioning him here because the riff to \u2018Louder Than Loud\u2019 sounds so much like primetime Dio I have to check that my MP3 player hasn\u2019t suddenly gone on shuffle by mistake.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the powerhouse drumming of Carl Cannedy that introduces both the epic \u2018Evil In Me\u2019 and the autobiographical \u20181982\u2019 and here the band once again capture that metallic stomp of Priest, likewise \u2018The Devil Made Me Do it\u2019 and the staggeringly brilliant \u2018Eveybody\u2019s Rockin\u2019\u2019 could very easily fit in on \u2018Screaming For Vengeance\u2019 or Defenders Of The Faith\u2019 such is the high standard of the metal on offer here.<\/p>\n

\u2018Brotherhood Of Metal\u2019 then is the sound of The Rods doing what they love, and as Cannedy himself states what you get here is \u201cno ballads, and nothing your mom will be humming\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Buy Brotherhood Of Metal Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahh The Rods, now there\u2019s a band name that instantly gets the musical memory banks whirring. To my teenage self way back in 1981 the band\u2019s awesome self-titled debut on Arista was an instant hit on my turntable, and I admit I only went to see Iron Maiden on their Beast On The Road tour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2080,1787,1710,2079],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-brotherhood-of-metal","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-rpm-online","tag-the-rods","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}