London quartet Damn Dice may have recently toured with L.A. Guns and cite Skid Row as one of their main influences, but the double-kick work and low-end riffing on The Great Unknown has a meaner, more modern edge reminiscent of Godsmack. It’s vocally that the cock rock comparisons make sense; raucous gang refrains chime in behind Alex Davidson’s clarion tenor throughout. There is some filler, and this solid debut is least interesting at its most conventional, but the hard metal of tracks like What Now? and Driven recall Corabi-era Mötley Crüe, which would be well worth exploring on any follow-up.
FOR FANS OF: Godsmack, Glamour Of The Kill, Mötley Crüe
(this review was originally published in rock sound magazine issue 204 Sept 2015)
GARETH PIERCE 