The term ‘legendary’ is over used when it comes to rock stars. However, when considering the towering, hair-flinging motormouth Sebastian Bach, a man today’s Skid Row can barely bring themselves to discuss, ‘legendary’ is the only word. Some of what you hear about him is true; some has simply grown through the telling. The man’s voice, as instantly identifiable as that of Axl Rose, remains an air raid siren of a thing on this, incredibly his first album in ten years. But for the fact that he’s as mad as a sieve without holes, you’d pick him for your band every day. That voice, that persona, just screams ‘rock star’, and so it proves on killer opener Everybody Bleeds and surging, heavily melodic rip-snorters like Crucify Me and Hard Darkness. Being Sebastian Bac...
