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Band
Mean Machine
Title
Livin' Outlaw
Type
LP/EP
Company
Independent
YOR
2014
Style
Heavy/Extreme
3/24/2014 7:43:30 AM - Review by: Eric Compton
This independent Spanish act certainly don't attempt to reinvent the wheel on 'Livin' Outlaw'. Mean Machine have created a babel with their brand of hyperactive punk metal. This is equal parts of Motorhead, Sex Pistols and early NWOBHM gallantry that fails to spark any value whatsoever. Props to the over the top vocalist but the end result just falls flat. If this is livin' then I'd rather be dead.
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Livin' Outlaw
2014
Independent
Eric Compton3/24/2014
2.5

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