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Tysondog - Beware Of The Dog - 1984

Goodness, take me back to those days when Neat Records ruled the world, I had disposable income - and it all went on records.

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As Ted Nugent once said many years ago, “You can’t keep a good a dog off your leg” which rings true for NWOBHM stalwarts Tysondog as they crash into 2022 with recently released new single ‘Midnight’, title track of a new studio album due out on April 29th via From The Vaults. Formed in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1982 and signed by Neat Records in 1984, splitting up in 1987 and reforming in 2008,…

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Tysondog: Crimes of Insanity (1986)

What a difference two years can make ... 

Newcastle’s Tysondog had surfed the final ripples of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with 1984’s solid Beware of the Dog debut, but ‘86’s sophomore Crimes of Insanity found the band struggling to stay current with evolving metal trends, while coping with a number of extenuating circumstances, besides.

For starters, guitarist and driving force Alan Hunter had been sidelined by health issues, and then frontman Clutch Carruthers, second guitarist Paul Burdis, bassist Kevin Wynn, and drummer Rob Walker were forced to produce themselves by a conspicuously disinterested Neat Records.

And yet, in spite of all that, things went well enough to begin with, thanks to twin standouts in the speedy “Taste the Hate” and emphatic “Blood Money,” and arguably the album’s best (certainly its most revealing) track, “Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down,” sandwiched in between.

Unfortunately, most of the ensuing material was so undistinguished and cliché-ridden (see “The Machine,” “Street Thunder,” “Judgement Day”) everything began blurring together, until a final tandem of dubiously named tracks, “Eat the Rich” and “Smack Attack” (LOL), at least put up some kind of fight.

Alas, these were the final swings of a knockout-bound boxer, and I myself started hedging my bets just as soon as the quartet embarked on a rather desperate, rote rendition of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out,” no doubt hoping it would earn them a little radio airplay.

It did not ... and I must say that the album’s typical 1980s production, with its booming echoes and synthetic-sounding drums, has only grown more dated and insufferable over the years.

All this, when combined with Tysondog’s hair metal transformation on the inner sleeve (watch out, Poison!) and the front cover’s Spinal Tap-like misunderstanding of the difference between “sexy” and “sexist” pretty much damned the band’s reputation with loyal N.W.O.B.H.M. fanboys like me.

Tysondog accepted the inevitable and broke up soon after, and they actually committed to retirement longer than most before succumbing to temptation and reforming for the odd nostalgia tour and mega metal fest, even going so far as to record a third long-player, Cry Havoc, in 2015.

But, to paraphrase the band’s first album, I’d beware of that dog -- and this dog, too, for that matter -- if I were you.

p.s. -- Some of these words were adapted from my All-Music Guide review of Tysondog’s Smell the Glove -- I mean Crimes of Insanity.

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