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Medamaki 'Warbird' CDEP 08 The five guys of Medamaki have given up on local practices like cow touching and cheese rolling for long enough to lay down this four tracker for the Fury 76 label and a very fine, if slightly flawed offering it is too. "Mouth of God"creeps in hesitantly before baring its teeth and puffing out its chest with an enormous chorus (try saying that drunk) which displays frontman Max's gutsy roar to excellent effect. Once it gets going there is no let up to this song, it's the musical equivalent to a sock full of snooker balls round the head. There's no let up in pace with track two, "Solar Plexus". I don't know if the band will like this but I detect a slight Black Stone Cherry vibe in the headlong grooves. Drummer Doug shines on this track, particularly when it breaks down to an awesome drum/cowbell led jam in the middle that Carlos Santana would be proud of, and let's face it, he hasn't done much to be proud of in a while!!! "Warbird" cheekily steals the riff from Thin Lizzy's "Chinatown" and recycles it as another fine slice of boogie metal. Check out the hungover and sweaty video for this tune on Youtube, also included on the CD as a bonus feature. Final track "Poison the Well" is probably the weakest tune here but still charges along in an amphetamine fuelled haze sticking a size twelve hobnail up the sphincter. Musically these boys can't be faulted, their blend of 70's riffage given a modern metal makeover brings to mind bands such as Orange