SLINGBLADE – The Unpredicted Deeds Of Molly Black
- by Matt Coe
- Posted on 03-10-2011
Traditional heavy metal from Sweden with a female singer, this five piece live for the early 80’s on this 10 song effort. Twin guitars that roar from the early Di’Anno/ Iron Maiden era with a pinch of Accept flair, standouts include the anthem-like “The Nature Of Evil” and “Two Minutes To Midnight”-ish “The Demon”. Kristina Karlsson has a cleaner Doro Pesch meets Betsy Bitch delivery – mean and heavy all the same.
A tepid snare sound and occasionally clichéd riffs push “The Unpredicted Deeds Of Molly Black” into one of those fence sitting acts – you know what you are going to get and while hero worship is admirable it doesn’t sustain much of a career at this point in metal’s history. Old-timers who remember Metal Blade’s Metal Massacre early legacy will treasure Slingblade – for me Wolf and Enforcer blow this out of the sky.