If you’ve been following me for a while, you may have noticed I do have a lot of albums from unheard of rock and metal bands from the 80’s and early 90’s. For every band that managed to breakthrough, there were squillions that didn’t. It’s not that they were all bad, they just never got the breaks.
Immaculate Mary are from Rochester in NY state, and this album creeped out in ’89. Apparently their claim to fame was that they were entered into The Guinness Book Of World Records for being the loudest band in the world in ’98.
This is pretty standard heavy rock and metal with a very sparse production, but I do like that FU attitude and naivety. Side 1 is okay with a not too shabby version of a Wild Thing, but Side 2 is where this album kicks off with the song Once Bitten. This track opens up with some heavy chugga riffing that leads into a Keel style hook and chorus, and is my favourite tune.
Main songwriter and guitarist Tommy Brunett is obviously the main man here as he writes the majority of the album by himself, as well as ripping on the axe wherever possible. You should be able to pick this up quite cheap because there was plenty of cut outs available.
7/10 from The Grooveman.
