It’s been a while since this writer listened to Acid Reign, so when putting on this album it was almost like opening a portal back to those heady days of teenage life when Moshkinstein and skateboarding was the centre of the world. Never a band to take themselves fully serious, it’s testament to their prowess that they still carry on making music all these years later.
Granted, they are pretty much a different band now apart from frontman H, yet that freewheeling spirit inherently remains as can be noted on the tumultuous opener ‘The Who Of You’. This doesn’t let up for the rest of the album as title track ‘Daze Of The Week’ pretends that the last 30 odd years haven’t happened and that thrash once again rules the world.
Highlights are the excellent ‘No Truth’, which demonstrates a keen technical ability in the band with its ferocious riffing, the anthemic ‘Conniption King’, which channels that punk energy which made them so much fun back in the day, and a rather explosive ‘Blind Lies’ forming the centrepiece of the album.
Acid Reign rarely stray away from a formula and the tracks here can start to blur into one after a while. This is music made to be played out at parties or concert halls though, with limbs flailing about and a high risk of some damage happening. It’s fun, and an energy shot in the arm but don’t expect much beyond that. Now, where’s that skateboard?
