Entertainment One (label)
31 May 2019 (released)
20 June 2019
It’s been 11 years since THC’s first album, ‘Pride Of Texas’ was released and in the intervening years they had had what could be kindly called a ‘fluid’ membership.
The only constant has been founder and lead vocalist ‘Big Dad’ Ritch but with a vocal as strong and easily identified as his, that’s all good.
Put most simply, they are a heavy rock / heavy metal band, loud, brash and arrogant and I would defy anyone to sit still listening to them.
You might expect a band with Texas in the title to do songs about partying, biking and all the things that go along with the life and that is exactly what you get – they happen to be rather good at it.
The current lineup is: ‘Big Dad’ Ritch on lead vocals, Cord Pool on guitar, Nevada Romo on guitar, Larado Romo on bass and Devon Carothers on drums and together they show a remarkable range of talents.
They don’t only play loud and hard, on tracks such as ‘Ride Or Die’ they bring the power down to a balladic honesty, full on emotion and passion as well as the thundering drums in the climax.
When they do hit top gear metal mayhem – such as ‘Dirty Finger’ or ‘Stevie Nicks’ (yes a song in praise of Stevie Nicks) – they rock like beasts, unconstrained and as powerful as a Mack truck.
This isn’t anything I haven’t heard before but it has a fresh feel to it and a really uplifting power.
Damn good stuff it is too.
