Review: L.A. GUNS – Black Diamonds (2023)

Tracii Guns and Phil Lewis ‘reunited’ to form (their version) of L.A. GUNS with the release of The Missing Piece (2017) through Frontiers Music. Since then the duo has gone on to release The Devil You Know (2019), Checkered Past (2021), and on April 14, 2023 Black Diamonds.

“You Betray” is a simplistic homage to ‘70s LED ZEPPELIN. Big on echo-y vocals and fuzzy riffs. “Wrong About You” continues this simplistic approach, but feels more like a demo than the finished product. Clean arpeggios lead the way on the trippy ballad “Diamonds”. The song crawls along to a sad ‘whoa whoa’ section, before being put out of its misery.

“Babylon” will have you scratching your head a little bit. Is this L.A. GUNS or the ALICE COOPER band? If it were Alice Cooper, there’d be a little more swagger to it…

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