If you thought the Sunset Strip era of Hair Bands died with when Seattle Grunge took over the airwaves then you’re sadly mistaken. You obviously have not heard of CrashDiet, the sleaziest, hairiest and horniest group to come along since Poison and Motley Crue.

This is pure 1980’s glam metal with enough sleaze to make a stripper blush. The band have their act down and they’re not faking it. These guys live the lifestyle like it is 1989. Leather, hairspray, big choruses, big hooks and lots of power chords and lickity split guitar solos.

The best song is “Armageddon” as it rocks hard and delivers. “Down with the Dust” and “Chemical” are both winners as well. While this is 100% true to the genre, from both looks of the band and sounds of the songs, that is where the problem lies. Its’ too ‘80’s and suffers from the “Been There Done That Syndrome.” While fun to listen to a few times one tends to revisit Crue and Poison when the urge to let your inner Hair Band out strikes, leaving CrashDiet as a bit of a novelty act.

Die-hard Sunset Strip Hair Band fans will totally dig this and crank it up and get into it. The rest of us will smile, shake are heads and admit that it is pretty good and then move on with our lives.