Review - Bengal Tigers "Fight for your Rightt"
 single on SM Records

The Bengal Tigers first came to my attention through prominent advertising and their own professionally designed and maintained web page. Their style is one like touring US rock artists, with a touch of glam & pop, but mostly heavy-rock leanings and some ultra-slick packaging and design! All this is best shown on their new release "Fight For Your Right", on SM Records.

This version actually came before the one doing the rounds on the radio & TV, and completely shits all over it! Barney and the boys have retained the feel of the Beastie Boys 1986 release, but have added their own licks to give the song a new lease. Track 2 is Mean Streets, also from the forthcoming album "In The Blood", employs the sound of 70s metal combined with 90s chunk and an Ozzy Osbourne/Bruce Dickenson vocal mix. Do It follows as a remix of our aural introduction from their debut EP "Pain Clinic" of 1995. It is described as "neo-punk riffola", but I hear a quicker and angrier version of Mean Streets. Hot Lips is the non-album track, paying tribute to their Aus-rock compatriots with an ACDC/Angels hook.

Bengal Tigers is a band that deserves one helluva lot of recognition. It's not a new sound but it is one that will help foster the flagging fan-base and interest in Australian hard-rock

PG (Jacky) Gleeson

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