Lillian Axe
is in my opinion one of the most overlooked and underrated hard rock bands out
there, and their brilliant "Poetic Justice" and "Psychoschizophrenia" albums
have never received the recognition I feel they deserve. I think they hit
bulls-eye with those albums, and therefore it was with much anticipation I put
their new album on.
But I can't
say my expectations were met at all, sure they have hit the board with this one
but it is surely a bit off the mark. Gone is some of the energy and intensity
and we are left with a rather pale version of old times. The signatures and
trades are very much still present but the magic has been lost somewhere down
the road.
Songwriter Steve
Blaze has created better material in the past, and the real highlights are too
few and far between on "Sad Day on Planet Earth" for me to fully support their
own words: "Lillian Axe is back and the girl has an axe to grind...". For
that they need to grind out a higher level of songs and write more catchy rock
tunes like they did earlier on in their career. Still a solid release that
surely brings back a lot of good memories but it never fully lives up to the
potential I know they have.
