Metal Caravans

TRACKLIST :

1. The Bride Wore Red
2. Moya's Comin' Out
3. How Can (I Carry On)
4. Love Me Madly
5. Wanting You
6. Caught (Red Handed)
7. The Party's Over
8. Roll Away The Stone
9. First Kiss
10. Real Good Time

Sometimes an album comes along completely out of the blue which appears totally disconnected with any prevalent musical trends. By the time Pet Hate released The Bride Wore Red the flash in the pan that was the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal had been consigned to a very small filing cabinet in the music archives. Traditional metal still existed but even the relatively new purveyors like Iron Maiden had been around for a number of years. Instead, influenced by events in the States, metal was becoming lighter and more pop orientated. Logically it would have made sense if Pet Hate's appearance had been timed to cash in on this move but their sound was a pale imitation of both streams making the faith bestowed on them by their record company even more of a mystery. Dressed like a New York Doll's tribute band and sounding like a cross between a punk band who forgot to set their alarm clock and missed the genre by several years and a tired glam rock outfit sounds like a recipe for disaster and - guess what? - it most certainly is. It helps not a jot that vocalist Alistair Terry has all the dexterity of a stuffed cat or the rest of the band are as musically proficient as the sound of bottles dropping into a recycling bin, but there have been plenty of bands who could neither play or sing, yet who carved out a succesful career. So what is totally unforgiveable is the lack of any feeling for what they're doing - just a belief it's only for financial gain.