Gypsy Pistoleros – Church of the Pistoleros
Gypsy Pistoleros – Church of the Pistoleros
Earache Records
Release Date: 02/05/2025
Review by Metalphysicist
8/10
“Church Of the Pistoleros” is the new album from Gypsy Pistoleros, a London-based band influenced by the 80s Hair Metal bands from Sunset Strip: Poison, Motley Crue, LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, just to name some of them. And Gypsy Pistoleros also brings to the mix some PUNK 77 attitude. I used to name that kind of sonority as Sleaze Metal – catchy chorus allied with crazy instrumentation as heard on “Church Of the Pistoleros”.
The album opens with ‘Church of Pistoleros’, which sounds melodic and right away falls into a catchy chorus repeated to exhaustion, until it takes over your brain and you can’t let it go, and it seems to last, like, forever! On ‘Shadow Walkers, ’ it becomes clear Vince Neil has a huge influence on the vocal performance.
‘Whatever Happened to the Old Town’ and a couple of other songs establish the band’s own personality, inspired by the very first albums of the above-mentioned Sunset Strip bands. To be mentioned, the cover song for ‘Livin’ la Vida Loca’ is as disposable as expected – it only would be worse if the chosen song was ‘Macarena’ or something like that!
Anyway, Gypsy Pistoleros’ “Church of the Pistoleros” is a fun 36 minutes spread over 10 songs! That is definitely what I consider a Sleaze Metal band. At the end of the day, who cares about boring arrangements and endless song’s bridges – don’t bore us, go straight to the chorus!
TRACKLISTING:
01. Church of the Pistoleros
02. Shadow Walker
03. Whatever Happened to the Old Town
04. Last Train to Nowhere
05. Livin’ La Vida Loca
06. I’m in Love With Myself
07. Last of the Comancheros
08. Dance Naked in the Rain
09. Hide Behind a Smile
10. The Prayer
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