Sleaze metallers Reckless Love just released their first album called ’Reckless Love’. That’s a tried-and-tested title for a debut album, but a more fitting title would be ‘The Absolute Very Best of 80s Metal’. The Finnish four-piece shamelessly steal from Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi and lot’s of other 80s icons, and their album is big, loud and dumb – and immensely fun.

The 11 Spinal Tap-esque titled songs on the album pretty much epitomizes everything that was great about 80s metal, and the Finns know every trick in the book – the twin guitars, the a cappella bit in the middle, the up-one-octave-in-the-final-chorus etc – and they are not afraid to use any and all of them.

Check out ‘Love Machine’ in the player below that sounds like the bastard child of ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’ and ‘I Love Rock’n’Roll’, and you will know why indie-kids and naysayers will frown upon the album and its more-than-obvious influences. And why the rest of us want to hear it again, rock‘n’roll all night and party e-ve-ry day.

If Reckless Love live up to their potential, they could give old school falsetto-metal its biggest comeback since The Darkness.

Genre: Sleaze metal/Rock
Who: Reckless Love
Album: Reckless Love
Label: Universal
Year: 2010
Country: Finland
Language: English
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Recommended tracks:
Feel My Heat – Love Machine – Beautiful Bomb - Back To Paradise – Born To Rock