Frontiers Music [Release date : 14.02.25]

Ninth album from Swedish Hard Rock band, Crazy Lixx, founded by singer / producer/ writer, Danny Rexon.

Hard to believe they’ve been around since 2002.

The opening three tracks ignite a full album’s worth of carefully crafted rock’n’roll, and that musical chemistry is perhaps even more evident here than it was on last album, Street Lethal (2022).

Those tracks – ‘Highway Hurricane’, ‘Who Said Rock’n’Roll Is Dead’ and ‘Little Miss Dangerous’ – see the band craft a lithe, powerful sound, with melodies that last, and guitars that slash and crash … a sensory overload of tunefully aggressive, hard hitting rock.

It’s been said before, it’s a lot like Rexon’s been listening to Ratt, Def Leppard and Alice Cooper, and wrested the 80’s Pop Metal blueprint out of their hands.

His vocal timbre is not a million miles from Joe Elliott’s nasal rasp, as his band mirrors Def Leppard’s polished pop metal.

There’s more to the album than the opening tracks of course.

Past experience is clearly being invested in the present, as the songs consistently come charged with a kinetic energy that always seem to to climax in a high voltage hook.

There’s room for everyone. Even the vampiric ‘Call Of The Wild’ and the politically charged ‘Recipe For Revolution’ sound right at home here.

Not forgetting ‘Hunt For Danger’, a monster melodic rock song with a sustained chorus, and ‘Run Run Wild’, powered by so much energy it almost lifts off the page.

These are additional evidence that the memories of pop metal’s illustrious past have never faded. Loudly and skillfully, Thrill Of The Bite confirms this.

And it has done so by delivering an album of highly melodic, declamatory pop metal at its finest. ****

Review by Brian McGowan

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