Planet Rock - USA (2020-04)

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It seemed like things moved incredibly

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What do you remember about

making the first Almighty

album, Blood, Fire & Love?

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Rock fans latched on to your band pretty

quickly. You were on the cover of Kerrang!

within a year or two.

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Did you get to play in the US at that time?

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You made Soul Destruction

with Duran Duran guitarist

Andy Taylor. A good time?

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by this point, British metal’s

own Posh and Becks...

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With Powertrippin’, it was

obvious you’d taken on some

influence from grunge rock.

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Over

The Edge

The Almighty’s hardest

hitters.

Wild & Wonderful

(on Blood, Fire & Love, 1989)

“I’ve found

something

new and

I’m fuckin’

lovin’ it,”

roars

Warwick, living his best life

on this audience favourite.

Free ‘N’ Easy

(on Soul Destruction, 1991)

The band’s

first Top 40

single, The

Cult and

Motorhead

sharing a

Harley en route to the

Bulldog Bash.

Jonestown Mind

(on Crank, 1994)

A sneering

punk-metal

attack on

the

‘sheeple’,

featuring

backing vocals from

Warwick’s best mucker,

Therapy? frontman Andy

Cairns.

Do You Understand

(on Just Add Life, 1996)

The

quartet’s

final major

label single

finds Ricky

Warwick

paying homage to his

teenage hero Jake Burns,

with a biting punk tune

that could have been

lifted from SLF’s Go

For It album.

Cranked up: The

Almighty in 1994.