If you’re not familiar with Massive Wagons then I won’t ask where you’ve been! This 5 piece, hard rock/heavy metal outfit from Lancashire are no stranger to the underground rock scene. They play real music for real music fans.
“Welcome to the World” is their 3rd album, funded with some help by Pledge Music fans. Hard hitting fast paced and in your face, the opening track Nails speaks volumes about the bands essence and their love of playing hard edged rock. Barry Mills’ growly vocals tell you he means business! With lyrical lines such as “Never give up, always be top on top, Always look up, show ‘em who you are” Nails is a kickass song for the working man, straightforward in its meaning, telling you to never be afraid to be yourself no matter what!
Tokyo, a song for the unsung music hero, is the song they should be playing on the radio. It’s so friendly, rocky and catchy, that you can’t help but fall for this bouncy and most commercial song of the album. It has everything from classic sounding guitar riffs and a steady drum pace, but that doesn’t overtake the song itself; it even has some cow bell thrown in for good measure to deliver that good rocking vibe. If it gets national radio rotation play, then MW you deserve to go to Tokyo!
Welcome to the World is the self titled track off the album; and you positively get the impression that MW will be ’doing this til they die’, as the lyric goes. It’s a very anthemic track with storming drums, and pounding bass by Adam Bouskill, and at 3mins 15 in, the very weighty riffs could easily fit in to Metallica’s for Whom the Bell Tolls.
Ratio is a second contender for Radio play, and with clever lyrics, anyone can relate to this song on a personal level; and that’s the point – plain and simple. Carl Cochrane and Adam Thistlethwaite’s guitar riffs and solos hook you into the track. You’ve got to love the irony of the song ‘I got a job on the roads, I got run over’.
Shit Sweat Death opens with a very bluesy slide guitar that dives straight in to a solid ballsy number, probably one of the best songs written about a river! With thunderous drumming by Alex Thistlethwaite, Massive Wagons are definitely raising hell on The Day We Fell, a reference to Moby Dick.
Rolling straight in to Fighting Jack, you can feel the energy of this band shining bright; this is how a real hard rock band should sound. Taking down the tempo a notch, Jodie is a classic sounding hard rock song about a girl that you didn’t quite make it with.
Aeroplane is the most curious song on the album; it almost feels like Barry is singing you a nursery rhyme with its melodic day dream like intro, but don’t let that fool you, as the band launch back in to their customary riffs and loudness, which makes for a standout number on the album.
Ever heard a lyric that just sticks in your mind? Fee Fi Fo Fum “I smell the blood of an English rock n roll band” is definitely one them. MW are smashing it with this first class last track on the album!
“Welcome to the World” is an inspiring album that should be placing the band up there with the rest of the new risers such as Inglorious, Blackberry Smoke, and Tax the Heat. Tighter than ever MW really give us an accomplishment of what they have achieved during the last five years, and this album surpasses their previous albums, so turn it up to 11 and rock out like a muthafucker.
Released 29th April 2016
Tighter than ever MW really give us an accomplishment of what they have achieved during the last five years, and this album surpasses their previous albums, so turn it up to 11 and rock out like a muthafucker.
