Album review : LYNCH MOB – The Final Ride (Live)

LYNCH MOB – The Final Ride (Live)

Frontiers Music [Release date : 29.05.26]

George Lynch was always known for his incendiary axework in a live setting. Never straying too much from the album the song came from, but adding enough to make it seem fresh and new.

It’s a reputation that’s amplified by The Final Ride, a live album recorded on the band’s 2025 tour. It also represents the Lynch Mob’s last substantial piece of recorded music.

The faces have changed innumerable times since the band’s inception in 1989. Lynch is the only original member left standing.

He’s been fronting a tight, tight unit and as we’ve come to expect, his guitar bites and stings, Jimmy Danda’s bass runs rumble with thunder, and Gabriel Colon’s soaring voice acts as our guide through a welter of muscular rock songs.

It’s what we’ve become used to. On the heavier stuff . . . ‘Lightning Strikes Again’, ‘Let Music Be The Master’ and ‘Street Fighting Man’ (not that one), and maybe ‘No Good’… the rhythm section lays down a bass heavy bedrock, leaving plenty of room for Lynch to carve out thick cut riffs and razoring axe solos.

You could float an argument that live, there is a brutality and an intensity to his his axework. A visceral power that pumps up the crowd. The reception they give ‘Paris Is Burning’ and ‘River Of Love’ is wild. Pretty sure the roof came off for ‘Time After Time’.

No surprise, really. Lynch’s emotional power as a musician goes on to underline ‘Wicked Sensation’s sexual cravings and ‘Hell Child’s eerie sentiments. Mr.Scary indeed. ***1/2

Review by Brian McGowan

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