At the time, I simply went to the giant HMV store near the corner of Yonge and Dundas in downtown Toronto for a welcome break from work and started picking up a different W.A.S.P. Given that Dominator was quite good, I decided to give the other W.A.S.P. had continued releasing studio albums at a pretty quick pace with Helldorado (1999), Unholy Terror (2001), Dying For The World (2002), The Neon God: Part I – The Rise (2004) and The Neon God: Part II – The Demise (2004). I picked up the double live album Double Live Assassins in 1998 but then stopped following the group until Dominator was released in 2007. released their disastrous industrial sounding Kill Fuck Die album in 1997, I started losing interest in the band. But it's the kind of dirt that you enjoy sticking, and as such Helldorado doesn't deserve the reputation it has.After W.A.S.P. The main noticeable difference between this and the early WASP albums is that whereby those were sleazy works of metal, this album is just plain dirty. There may not be quite the same variety in the songwriting that we're used to by this point in their catalogue, but tracks like 'Dirty Balls', 'Don't Cry (Just Suck)', 'Damnation Angels' and 'High on the Flames' are undeniably successful highlights. Helldorado was Blackie's attempt at a 'back to roots' album and it accomplishes this goal convincingly. The only reason I can think of this being rated so badly is because it's nothing like Headless Children, Crimson Idol, or the experimental KFD, all which preceded it. Really there's nothing here to dislike if you're a WASP fan. All the elements are there that you'd expect - great catchy songwriting, tonnes of quality guitar solos from Chris Holmes, Blackie's signature grating vocals and lyrics about sex, sex and more sex. Helldorado, rather than being a thorn in WASP's side, is a confident, raw, stripped-down WASP album with more decent songs in their classic 80s vein. Finally I decided to give it a chance, thinking it would be little else than a farcical embarrassment. I avoided this album for years because it was rated so badly on other websites. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.

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Helldorado full album