American Hardcore

Artist: L.A. Guns
Label: Sanctuary Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 060768620520
EAN: 0060768620520
ASIN: B000001Y9M

Release Date: 1996-10-29

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Tracks:

F.N.A.
WHAT I'VE BECOME
UNNATURAL ACT
GIVE
DON'T PRAY
PISSED
MIRE
KEVORKIAN
HEY WORLD
NEXT GENERATION
HUGS AND NEEDLES
I AM ALIVE

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Customer Reviews:

The opposite of excellent.......2006-01-03

My grandmother eating a ham sandwich sounds more like LA Guns than this does.

LA Guns weakest album.......2005-12-12

1996 saw the emergence of a new, (albeit short-lived) LA Guns. After almost a decade with the band, bassist Kelly Nickels, guitarist Mick Cripps and singer Phil Lewis left the band. The new lineup brought Johnny Crypt (bass) and Chris Van Dahl (vocals) into the fold. Holdovers Tracii Guns (Guitar) and Steve Riley (Drums) filled out the lineup.

Musically, American Hardcore takes up where "Vicious Circle" (1994) left off. With "Vicious Circle" the band had been eschewing their signature pop-metal in favor of a more aggressive sound. This worked with "Vicious Circle" because the band still came up with some good hooks and Phil Lewis added melody and made the songs memorable. The band is less successful, however, with "American Hardcore." Chris Van Dahl is by no means a bad singer. He would actually fit in just fine fronting a death metal or hardcore band, but he just isn't right for LA Guns. Dahl's throaty growl just doesn't mesh with the band. But it just isn't Dahl that ruins the album. The album sounds forced, as thought they were trying too hard to sound aggressive. The album isn't a total failure; there are some ideas here and there, and some good riffs and solos, but overall, the album doesn't work.

If you are a hard-core fan or collector, you will want to own this disc. Casual fans are advised to stay away.

10 years later and this still sounds like crap !.......2005-12-12

This crap makes death metal sound melodic. It's laughable at best and what's worse is that I saw them on this tour with Van Dahl on vocals and everyone walked out on the band because it was billed as L.A.Guns and this is not L.A. Guns. Suckups to the band will argue that it's just heavier than the normal L.A. Guns sound but that doesn't account for the despicable attempts at song writing that ended up on this cd. If you want to hear L.A. Guns sound heavier than usual, then buy Traci Guns solo cd. It is freakin' heavy and it rocks. The songs are great.

Nope.......2005-11-16

I had this cd for a while then proceeded to get rid of it. It's LA Guns trying to sound like Pantera,mainly because of the singer. The 'real' Guns albums are the ones with Phil Lewis who is a great singer. I dont want to hear Pantera when i put on a LA Guns cd. Keep that in mind if you buy this album.

Without Phil?.......2005-09-18

Now when I first recieved this album, I was really excited to hear it being an L.A.Guns fan, but when I listened to the first few tracks I was truly dissapointed, for a few reasons
1:They changed their name to "The L.A.Guns"
2:Tracii Guns was the only original member in this lineup
3:They went into the Heavy Metal scene which is NOT L.A.Guns style at all.
I didnt like how they changed to the heavy metal scene because im not all that into heavy metal for 1, and for 2 because it is not L.A.Guns, this album was just a pathetic attempt to gain new fans since they started to fall off the map after the Vicious Circle flop, now dont get me wrong, I thought Vicious Circles was a great album, but this album they took it a step to far, and with this album you can tell that they were truly hurting without the vocals of Phil Lewis. The only positive that came out of this album was some pretty cool guitar riffs. I only recommend this album if your a TRUE L.A.Guns fan.

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