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BULLET
Dust To Gold

Steamhammer (2018)
Rating: 10/10

I find myself more and more attracted to traditional metal versus, well, most of what I’m hearing nowadays. Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch get lost on me. Avenged Sevenfold, I just don’t get. But when I listen to new music by the likes of Sacred Leather, Thrust, Lechery and now Bullet, this makes sense to me.

Dust To Gold, Bullet’s new record, is downright phenomenal, and track two, ‘Ain’t Enough’, is up there for best song of the year, right next to ‘Sorceress’ by Thrust or ‘Ultimate Force’ by Sacred Leather. It’s that damn good, and to say it rocks is a complete understatement.

Bullet is straight up, ass kicking rock ‘n’ roll. Dust To Gold is equal parts hard rock and metal cranked to 11. Denim and leather, spikes and studs, Bullet’s sound is stripped down, no frills rock, equal parts Judas Priest, Saxon, Motörhead and Accept, and that’s just the tip of the musical iceberg. If you’re not familiar with Bullet, you better get at it because they’re among the best at what they do and with each record they release, they just get better.

Bullet hails from Sweden, knows metal better than most veteran bands from back in the day, and have six full-length records and an EP out. And not a bum disc in the bunch either folks. With titles like ‘Bang Your Head’, ‘Leather Love’ and ‘Heavy Metal Highway’ rockin’ is their business and business is (damn) good. You can find those gems on their 2003 Speeding In The Night EP – just a little plug for their back catalogue, rivet heads.

Dust To Gold never lets up and never disappoints. ‘Speed And Attack’ starts the record off proper with a serious nod to early Accept, and is something you can play sandwiched between ‘Restless And Wild’ and ‘Fast As A Shark’. Meanwhile, picking up where the aforementioned ‘Ain’t Enough’ leaves off, is the rocker ‘Rogue Soldier’ which is pure metal mayhem.

Describing this record is easy. It’s max riffage and max volume, best exemplified by the back-to-back dose of ‘Fuel The Fire’ and ‘One More Round’… just a ten ton wrecking ball of grass roots heavy metal.

Bullet is a welcome return to the classic metal sound before it splintered off into a thousand sub genres and disappeared into a haze of Aqua Net and spandex in the mid-to-late 80s. The band’s music is reminiscent of a time when battle vests actually stood for something, not the fashion statement they’ve become now. Dust To Gold takes you back to a period of time when metal was feared and respected, when this sound was a death knell to posers. Amps, guitars, riffs, leather, and a fist held high. That’s Dust To Gold. That’s Bullet. And that’s why this ass kicking is as good as it gets.

Theron Moore

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