Ultra Bomb – Time To Burn

Three iconic band members, Greg Norton (Hüsker Dü), Finny McConnell (The Mahones) and Jamie Oliver (UK Subs), now one band named Ultrabomb.  A supergroup?, that’s down to your own perspective, but what you definitely get, is a trio that have graced our ears over the years with some of the most ridiculously insane punk rock that has ever been made, now together making a sound that should and most definitely will be right up there.

Think The Professionals, The Who (yes I said The Who), The Replacements, Iggy Pop, Dead Boys and more recently Fake Names then you’re in the same rich vein. A band that demands you listen, gives everything you were or might have been expecting, punk with huge seams of Rock n Roll running through the middle.

Eleven tracks of pure unadulterated passion and experience are awaiting you on the other side of the hit play button.  Title track ‘Time To Burn’ fires the opening salvo, a machine gun firing Rock n Roll bullets straight at ya with no care for the ear damage they do, this is immediately followed by the straight up Who esque rock banger that is ‘Fear Your Gods’ with all the power and belief that you would expect in a song that seems to say the opposite to the title.

If the lead tracks into this album give you the impression that your in for a ride, a ride that takes you through a musical history as well as a look into the future, then you would be right on track take ‘I Can Make It’ with its relentless drive and punk credentials, then ‘Stickman Vs Hangman’ that harks back to a time of clever melodic riffs mingled with rock guitar and machine gun drumming (The Cult), yet still this song is so of the now in its urgency to be alive.

Along with all the head banging and air guitar playing that you may or may not be partaking in, what this slice flaming hot chilli punk gives you is exactly that, this leads perfectly into the nuclear explosion that is ‘Bang Punk’ this song is the gem that shines bright in an already “blinds with raw energy” album, it explodes with love, punk family values, and nothing more than ridiculously sublime riffs and hooks that are all tied together by a pure as hell set of beats, where do we go from here?.  Apart from maybe some more insanely great Rock n Roll that feels like you’ve just been flung in front of the said “runaway train”, you then get the wonderfully ramped up version of Dead Boys ‘Sonic Reducer’ a cover that sits like an asbestos glove at the end of this volcanic eruption of an album.

A melting pot of everything that’s ever worth listing to in music, the ashes are hot and the fire walkers of music have arrived! 

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