EP Review: Black Spiders – Deaf Proof

Sheffield’s Black Spiders are primarily a rock ‘n fuckin’ roll band, with that sentence you may wonder why this is being written about on here, but there has always been a history of bands from that side of that fence that have an appeal for punk audiences, whether it’s the sleazy charms of Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction, the thrash titans of the eighties and nineties such as Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth, the Grunge era that embraced both influences, and not forgetting the grandaddies of them all, Black Sabbath and Motörhead, this is the company that Black Spiders latest EP “Deaf Proof” is keeping, and from first exposure it’s right at home. A cover of The Easybeats 1968 hit single ‘Good Times‘ might not be the expected intr...