Why does so many bands have to be classified as “dirty rock’n’roll” these days, when they actually play good old heavy metal? ‘Cause Dustsucker is REAL heavy metal, the NWOBHM-style!

First name that popped into my head when I heard their newest album, Diabolo Domination, was my old favorites TANK. TANK and their Power Of The Hunter-album was my first excursion into heavy metal sometime around 1981, when they were still a trio, and Dustsucker took me back to those early, early days of my “metal-disease”, that has lasted ever since. And it’s a nice trip back. The 12 tracks of 3 to 4 minutes a piece, are short injections of pure R’n’R/heavy metal-power. They are filled with riffs that reminds me of TANK, early Iron Maiden and their other peers of NWOBHM of the early 80’s, the classic R’n’R/HM form in compositions, melody lines and solos, and an energy and joy of playing this “old stuff” that shines through on the whole album. Not that it sounds outdated, the production is modern and powerful enough for todays demands, but still keeping the original feeling.

The bands history dates back to ’93, when it was founded by guitarist and singer Max Count Farmer and drummer Marco Piermattei, and they are still present in the current line-up. I’m a bit confused about the rest of the line-up, it says something different in the promo-material I’ve received and on their MySpace page. On this album it’s supposedly Rebellion-guitarist Uwe Lulis, that has done the bass work along with producing the album, but the last member(s) of the band is according to their MS-page H.U. Vanya Drost  on guitars and Florian Schulz on bass and backing vocal. As a small curiosum one solo is done by Jeff Waters, but it’s not the highlight of the album – my general impression is rather a solid album of classic heavy metal tunes with British sound and style.

Through the years they have done a number of albums and EPs, since 2004 this is their third on Go Nuts Records, a division under LIMB music, with international release.