DYNAMITE – Big Bang

DYNAMITE - Big Bang
  • 6.5/10
    DYNAMITE - Big Bang - 6.5/10
6.5/10

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Dynamite Productions
Release date: September 1, 2017

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The first track on Dynamite’s third album Big Bang is “March On (To The Beat Of Your Drum)”, an odd command from a band that is very clearly marching to the beat of AC/DC’s drum. Whether it is the riffs, tempo, lyrics, song structures, band-chanted choruses, or singer Mattis’s vocals, which usually range somewhere between Bon Scott’s mirthful menace and Brian Johnson’s gleeful shriek, Big Bang is virtually marinated in AC/DC.

Being a derivative isn’t necessarily bad in music, especially in the vacuum left by the retirement of a great band who is unlikely to ever add to their catalogue. Most Metalheads aren’t opposed to a decent, earnest cover band, so many would be likely to at least give a band attempting new material in the style of an icon a chance. The risk in such a venture is that homage, if poorly executed, can appear to be parody.

Big Bang isn’t a parody record, and the songs are solid tributes, especially the aforementioned “March On (To The Beat Of Your Drum)”, the title cut, and “Rock N’ Roll Ain’t Dead”, but taken as a whole the album doesn’t approach the grandeur and punch of the canon that inspired it. Is it a failing to not be as a good as an iconic band? Is it in a sin to play like Angus but not be Angus, one of the most singular and original musicians ever to pick up a guitar? It isn’t, and so Big Bang isn’t a bad album. It just isn’t an AC/DC album, no matter how hard Dynamite tries to make it one.

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  • Daniel Waters

    Daniel was a reviewer here at Metal Express Radio. Iron Maiden’s Piece Of Mind wasn’t the first Metal album he owned, but it was the one that lifted the lid off his soul when he received the record as a gift on his 15th birthday. He's been a Metal fan ever since. He's probably best known as the author of various Young Adult novels such as the Generation Dead series and the ghost story Break My Heart 1,000 Times, now also a major motion picture entitled I Still See You, starring Bella Thorne. Writing and music, especially Heavy Metal music, has always been inextricably linked in his mind and career. His first paid gig doing any type of writing was for Cemetery Dance, where he wrote a horror-themed music column called Dead Beats, and when he was writing the first Generation Dead novel he had a ritual where he started his writing day with a Metal playlist that kicked off with “Crushing Belial” by Shadows Fall.

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