Band:	Kick Axe
Album:	Kick Axe IV
Style:	Heavy metal
Release date:	October 07, 2004
A review by:	Malcolm

01. Right Now
02. Rockin Daze
03. Consolation
04. Turn To Stone
05. Do You Know
06. Who Knows Ya
07. Woe
08. Time
09. Slip Inside My Dreams
10. Who Says
11. Rock 'N' Roll Dog
12. Black Heart
13. City Lights
14. The Only Ones Here

It happen quite often nowadays, that old bands that disbanded years ago once again come together and start playing music again, and Kick Axe is not exception, the old Canadian Hard rock band that with their three releases between 1983 and 1987 took the world with storm is back, after 15 years of silence, that's something, don't you think?

The year was 1988, Kick Axe quitted as friends and left behind them three albums that was loved by a whole Hard rock world, and in 2000, the old label (Sony) started to re-release the album on CD, and against everyone's expectation, the album sold very well, and the band decided to give it shot, and started to play together again, all except the last singer, that was unavailable due to long-term commitments, so the band asked the original vocalist, and Kick Axe was back.

Sounds quite unbelievable, don't you think? Almost like a Hard rock fairytale, but it's true, to every word, and here in my hand I holding the fourth and latest Kick Axe album, simply named "IV".
Unfortunately I have no experience at all with Kick Axe, but my love for Hard rock have always been there, since it was the Hard rock that introduced me to the wonderful world of Hard rock and Metal.
So this is always exciting, to hear there old and famous band, even if Kick Axe never got the cult stamp they could have, because of the split-up.

So what's to say about this comeback? Well, musically it's very interesting, both because the band was on it's way to become gigantic back in the eighties and since it's pure eighties Hard rock with a modern touch, that today's Hard rock bands never can do, this much be done by a band that was a part of the old scene, like Kick Axe.
To many this music might sound a bit monotonous, boring and simple, but it's not, Hard rock is about soul and passion, not only about originality, and Kick Axe got it all, that I can tell you, without hearing the older records.

It's hard to mention good and bad sounds on a album like these, because both that all songs got something good and since it's so many songs, very typical Hard rock, shorter and more songs, don't know why, but it's very usual in Hard rock.
But to at least mention a few good ones I'll have to say the ender "The Only Ones Here", that caught my attention on the first spin, but also "Rockin Daze" and "" is very good, and of course the rest of the album.

So as mention, this is the comeback for Kick Axe, and everyone that have heard them before just have to check this up, because I don't think you'll be that disappointed, I mean, it was 16-17 years since the last album.
But fans of eighties harder hard rock might easily buy if to, because this is what you're listening too.

Check Out: "The Only Ones Here" and the other 13 songs, you'll need it.