KILL CHEERLEADER
All Hail
Spinerazor/Corporate Punishment
· Two, four, six, eight – Toronto’s Kill Cheerleader pushed through the difficulties to make a new album.
Years in the making, All Hail has been both a labour of love and the straw that broke Kill Cheerleader’s back. Faced with a miasma of difficulties from engineering to release, this album has quite honestly been "in the can" for longer than the average rocker’s attention span.
Regardless, one must admit that the wait was not entirely deflating. Rough, dirty and with a sneer that would make Billy Idol jealous, this release balls up that frustration and spits it back out with 12 tracks of punk rock ’n’ roll aggression. Channelling the cryptic dynamics of Turbonegro, the straightforward attitude of Hellacopters and raunch of Motley Crue, the influences on All Hail couldn’t be more obvious. Yet, it works in spades for the most part, only faltering at times with re-recorded takes of older material such as "So Young," "Want Action" and "Bad Habit."
Not that they are particularly bad, but they do little to improve upon perfectly fine versions on the band’s self-titled EP of a few years back. Rugged, enduring and like a flip of the Trudeau finger, All Hail is a succinct lesson in grime from one of Toronto’s most enduring acts.
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