1968 – Salvation, If You Need…

 

 

1968 – Salvation, If You Need…
No Profit Recordings – 2021
Rock, Stoner, Hard, Blues, Garage, Metal, Grunge
Rated: ****

It felt like pure poetic justice to also review 1968 on the same day we mention ’68. Our mind drifted back to Ballads Of The Godless, that amazing album from 2018 which you all massively voted for when the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown rolled around that year. Making it reach Number 17. For all those crazies that voted back then, the new record Salvation, If You Need… will surely be right up your alley and will get your vote without a second thought! It is their second full-sized album and all of the ten tracks turned into the heavy and full volume rockers we loved on Ballads Of The Godless. Severely gritty, powerful and wild these tracks will race straight into your heart like a marauding gang of bikers running fast and loud on an early morning freeway, tense for action. You know the types, chain wearing, shades sporting, greasy Levis wearing long haired good old boys. And you will immediately join that motley gang, beards and bandana’s flapping and rocking out like the burst of dirty thunder that it is. And really, do we need to say more? It’s everything you love about Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix and all the heaviness in between. And when you pay homage by covering Guts, one of the best Budgie tracks, you are alright in my book and can have my vote any day! So if you’re looking for something good and heavy, for something heavy and good, if you are in desperate need to hear that motoring sound which we all love so much or are looking to be redeemed… Shit, here’s Salvation, If You Need…

(Written by JK)

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