ALBUM REVIEW: Electric Six “Bride Of The Devil”

Electric Six "Bride Of The Devil" album cover

Electric Six “Bride Of The Devil” album cover

Detroit’s very own Electric Six roar back with Bride Of The Devil their newest release on Metropolis Records, and the hardest working band in showbiz or at least in The Motor City have decided it’s time to rock your world and rock it very, very hard.

So, here’s the thing about the Electric Six, they are funny, and I mean really funny guys, who just happen to be able to lay down a groove like the bad ass Detroit street rockers that they are, all without taking themselves too seriously (god bless ‘em) and Bride Of The Devil is their own twisted take on the “RAWK” anthem. Filled with hooks, wailing guitars and over the top vocals, Electric Six have gifted us with a blast of fresh music that will rock your socks off – cowbell included at no extra charge.

Electric Six are nothing if not direct, and Bride Of The Devil opens with… “The Opener” a chugging slice of muscular rock that sets a horns up, rock attack attitude for the whole album.

“You’re Toast” is a stadium sized bone crusher wrapped up in a 3 minute 21 second bow and containing not one but two face melting guitar solos. Don’t tell these guys that rock is dead because they ain’t buying it and after hearing this smoker neither am I.

Electric Six; press photo

Electric Six; press photo

“Hades Ladies” arrives just in the nick of time to be the anthem to the best holiday of the year (of course I mean Halloween) and if you’re not singing along with the grin inducing chorus on this little piece of ear candy you’re either dead or just a tone-deaf fool.

Of course, what every ROCK epic needs are a couple of slow numbers to get the girls on the dance floor. Electric Six know the rules and Bride Of The Devil has its share, the stand out being “Worm Of The Wood”. Maybe it’s a paean to an absinthe fueled night, its snatches of debauchery remembered only as a trippy hallucination… or maybe it’s not, how should I know? All I can say is it’s a great track and the awesome chorus that borrows a bit from Romeo Void, kicks ass, and when they do this one live I’m grabbing my girl and slow dancing real close.

So now that Electric Six have given us Bride Of The Devil, a most perfect soundtrack to THE perfect holiday I ask you, isn’t it the least we can do to thank them by buying their record? A concert ticket? And maybe even a friggin’ t-shirt? And should some shady character approach you at the show with a contract, only valid when signed in blood… well sign the damn thing because they don’t call rock-n-roll the devil’s music for nothing!