Nazareth - Tattooed On My Brain
Frontiers
http://www.nazarethdirect.co.uk/

Rating: C

Nazareth is celebrating their 50^th anniversary as a band.  Hair of the Dog will always be the standard all of their albums are compared to…which is unfortunate as it is a stone cold mutha of a record.  That said, this new one is like most of everything they have done other than HOTD…it is good…has moments but is not great.

Dan McCafferty was, in many ways the heart and soul of Nazareth, but he can’t do it anymore.  Age has costs when it comes to fronting a hard rock band.  Filling his giant shoes admirably is Carl Sentence.  He can sound enough like Dan on the classics to get the gig but he has his own sound on the record. He is more of an ‘80s rocker in voice but it works.  Again…there are songs that rock and there are songs that don’t…typical Nazareth.

The album tarts off with a huge bang filling the listener full of promise.  The tune “Never Dance with the Devil” is Hair of the Dog worthy!  This fucker is loud, heavy and bull of testosterone.  Unfortunately, the album tails off for several tracks until “Crazy Molly” and “Silent Symphony” wake it back up.

At the end of the day…the will is there…and there are a few standout tracks.  But this is, as mentioned, another average Nazareth outing…something they’ve made a career out of.

Track listing:
Never Dance With The Devil
Tattooed On My Brain
State Of Emergency
Rubik’s Romance
Pole To Pole
Push
The Secret Is Out
Don’t Throw Your Love Away
Crazy Molly
Silent Symphony
What Goes Around
Change
You Call Me

By Jeb "Hair of the Dog" Wright