In many ways, Australia can be seen as solely to blame when it comes to the rise in generic rock revivalists post-2005. While most Australian 'rawk' bands are genuinely sincere with their want to rock and roll all night and party every day, it's a merit that doesn't translate particularly well onto record in terms of timelessness or genuine artistic statement. Unfortunately, this is the case for
Full Throttle, an astonishingly difficult record to bash because, even though it has no merit as being vital or important whatsoever, it's still a genuinely randy piss up of Bintang shirt bogan proportions. Technically, melodically and musically speaking Massive do everything they are capable of and more and make a decent fist of it too; soppy bollocks ballad a la Bad English "Ghost" is a K-ROCK hit 30 years too late, and it's hard to to criticize it as anything but a lot of fun. The same can be said for the bevy of Skynyrd 'N' Coc' inspired numbers that make up the record; there's a lot of fun to be had if you check intelligence at the door for "Burn the Sun" and "One By One". You can blame it on us Aussies or Earaches' latest propensity to sign any revival act, but it doesn't look like the '70s blues revival is going away anytime soon. For better or worse, Massive are the the forerunners of the movement in the '10s.
