Murderdolls-Women and Children Last CD

Horror influenced glam-punk group Murderdolls first hit the scene back in 2002.
Their debut album – the monster-mash Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls was a smash but the band members went their separate ways.

Women and Children Last (let's call it WACL from here) is a decidedly darker effort.
Straddling the line between '80s-era hard rock and the Alice school are tunes like Summertime Suicide – which is more solidly melodic, with a groovy chorus hook and a great lead guitar. The Crüe sound comes through strongest in tunes like Death Valley Superstars, Rock N Roll Is All I Got and Nothing's Gonna Be Alright, but on Blood Stained Valentine the band goes as far as to enlist Crüe guitarist Mick Mars for axe duties. While that track is not nearly as catchy, Mars' solo work comes through most powerfully on Drug Me to Hell – which ironically is far less Crüe-like in tone, filled instead with crunchy, stacked modern-metal riffs and doubled vocals.

That more contemporary groove-metal sound comes through best on My Dark Place Alone – which is highly reminiscent of Rob Zombie's early work, complete with heavy drop-tuned riffs and caustic, snarling vocals, while Homicide Drive has a dark, shuffling beat and will definitely stick in your mind thanks to the use of “supercalifragilisticexpealidocious” in a lyric that would probably blow Mary Poppins back up into the clouds. After that, the standard edition album closes on an almost-as-memorable note with Hello, Goodbye, Die.

review given by Gregory Burkart of  Fearnet.com