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What’s the first thing you think of when I say Blackpool Rock? Something to get your teeth into? Something long pink and sticky? Now there’s some Blackpool Rock you need to get your ears into! Mass Vendetta is the latest album from Blackpool Punk/Rock Band The Senton Bombs released on 16th April 2016 by 7hard. Formed in 2004 as The Terrorists they already have several demos and three studio albums under their belts. ‘Sweet Chin Music’ ‘Gambit’ and ‘Chapter Zero’.
The album opens with Trailblazer and straight away grabs you with a catchy left hook, it’s got it all, starts off hard hitting, has a more gentle beat half way through, melodic ‘Ooh Oohs’, then speeds up again. Lot’s of diiferent elements blazing a trail for the following ten tracks! If you remember being a mere babe in arms and having lullabys sung to, to send you to sleep, then you may recognise some of the lyrics in Mainstream from Rock-a-bye Baby although this particular lullaby reminded me of Motorhead’s Metropolis in places, so I’m not sure it would send you to sleep, but if Motorhead did lullabys then it would have been something like Mainstream! Next comes Train Wreck and I move onto another childhood classic with Thomas the Tank Engine, think something like Golden Earring’s Radar Love meets Deep Purple’s Highway Star with added Toot Toots! The riffs really do sound like the chug of a train, add the vocal ‘Toot Toots’ and you can just imagine Thomas and friends chugging along the North Western Railway lines.
The title track Mass Vendetta is short, sweet and catchy, reminiscent of Experiment from their 2012 album Gambit. The shortest track 13 Days had a similar vibe to Knock Out Kaine’s 16 Grams of Heart Attack. Pretty Tricky a rock ‘n’ roller with some screaming riffs and aggressive ‘Hey Hey Heys’ with the chorus telling you to ‘Keep your cool it gets pretty tricky.’ Wedlock Horns has a marching beat and the lyrics include marrying the ‘Devil’s daughter’ and buying her a ‘Ring of fire’ and I like to think the seed for including the latter in the lyrics was sown when I likened Darkest Horse to it in my review of their last album Chapter Zero! In Red Shield the vocals are almost spoken in places and the riffs sound almost like bagpipes! Then we come to The Apex or the end of this particular trail with this heavy, Rammstein-esque number.
The Senton Bombs are, indeed, masters of versatility with a ‘MassVendetta‘ against being pigeon-holed into any one genre! If Motorhead did lullabys! If Thomas the Tank Engine did rhythm! If bagpipes played riffs! Elements of Rock, Punk, Country. The Blackpool Rockers have come up with a masterpiece again!
Highlight Track: Train Wreck
Track List:
1: Traiblazer
2: Mainstream
3: Train Wreck
4: Out West
5: Mass Vendetta
6: 13 Days
7: Avalanche
8: Pretty Tricky
9: Wedlock Horns
10: Red Shield
11: Apex
Band Members:
Joey Class – Vocals & Bass
Damien Kage – Guitar & Backing
Johnny Gibbons – Guitar & Backing
Scott Mason – Drums
For more information on The Senton Bombs read a full biography here. They were our featured band in February 2014 see here.
2016 Tour Dates:
- £12.09
