Night Attack - Angels

I was a little wary approaching this album, a 1981 hard rock record from a band calling themselves "The Angels" and thus engendering a nightmare vision of a seventies glam rock band strutting around on stage in white cloaks and face-paint, so I was pleasantly surprised to hear a decent melodic rock album with enjoyable early heavy metal crossover appeal. Now finally defunct after a long, drawn-out career, The Angels were one of the more prominent Australian hard rock bands, after AC/DC of course. The dominant style on display here is medium speed, guitar-led rock in its most basic form, without needing to expand the sound through keyboards and other ...  Read the complete review