Reviewed by Brian Kushnir
Released: May 1981 Alkatrazz (UK) Young Blood Genre: NWOBHM Rating: 2 out of 5 Highlights: (none to speak of) Alkatrazz UK. That’s Alka with a K. Like Alka Seltzer, which is what you all may need to drink after imbibing this. Don’t mistake them for Alcatrazz, the US band that is still in the future at this point and featured the absolutely insanely brilliant and original Yngwie Malmsteen shredding away on guitar along with Graham Bonnet on bona-fide rock star vocs. This Alkatrazz are a bunch of second or third tier NWOBHM’ers from the charming and appropriately metal town Maidstone, Kent, coincidentally also the home of the Performing Ferret Band. It's clear these two bands didn’t travel in the same circles and there is no “Maidstone Sound” of clever inventive subversiveness for us to comment on. Songs. Sound. Attitude. Chops. Characters. Design. Vision. The best of the bands have all of these. The ones with a hint of something interesting have at least one. Alkatrazz UK have none, which is likely why they plop plop fizz fizzled out.
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