Artist: UFO
Title: Seven Deadly
Type: Album
Label: SPV

It’s more than forty years now since the UFO story began and it’s frankly amazing that they still have albums as good as Seven Deadly in them. While other bands with a decade or two behind them are content to release an endless stream of greatest hits packages and milk the nostalgia addicts for every last penny, UFO continue to push themselves creatively, crafting exquisite hard rock albums to challenge the very best. Vocalist Phil Mogg is nothing short of a walking, talking miracle. He’s appeared on every UFO album from that 1970 debut to now, he’s sixty bloody four this year and he sounds every bit as brilliant as ever, his famous voice utterly undiminished by so many years of work in the studio and on the unforgiving road.

Of course fellow band members Paul Raymond, Andy Parker (also a founder member of the band) and US guitar wizard Vinnie Moore also have a wealth of experience behind them - and the talent to match. To use an old cliché, this band are like the proverbial fine wine, just getting better with age. The last studio album, 2009’s The Visitor, was a magnificent release but, from the few plays I’ve managed so far, it sounds like Seven Deadly is even better. I can’t imagine any UFO fan, or even any classic rock fan, being disappointed by this album – it’s satisfaction guaranteed. Songs like ‘Angel Station’, ‘Fight Night’ and ‘Waving Goodbye’ not only do justice to UFO’s formidable legacy but they incredibly, hint at a still bright future for this great British rock institution.

http://www.ufo-music.info/

Chris Kee

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