Son Of A Bitch - Victim You (Re-release)

Published September 13 2012

*=Staff's pick	Bitch Of A Place To Be* Drivin' Sideways Past The Point* No Ones Getting Over Treacherous Times Love Your Misery I Still Care Old School More For Me* Evil Sweet Evil Victim You Running Away (From You)

Genre	Heavy Metal	Ted Bullet	Vocals
Tracks	12	Graham Oliver	Guitar
Running time	54 Min.	Haydn Conway	Guitar
Label	Angel Air	Steve Dawson	Bass
Release	17 September 2012	Pete Gill	Drums
Country	England	-	Keyboard
Producer	Son Of A Bitch
Similar artists	Saxon

Former and two of the founding members of Saxon, guitarist Graham Oliver and bassplayer Steve Dawson re-formed Son Of A Bitch in the mid-nineties, together with another ex-member of Saxon, Pete Gill, Thunderhead vocalist Ted Bullet and second guitarist Haydn Conway.

The name Son Of A Bitch was first used in the mid-seventies, before Oliver and Dawson teamed up with members of Coast to form the now legendary band Saxon. Gill and Bullet left the band soon after the release of Victim You and the remaining members formed their own version of Saxon, due to legal actions later renamed to Oliver Dawson Saxon.

This album was originally released in 1996 and sixteen years later a remastered version with one bonus track in Running Away (From You) sees the light of day. It starts with some cool riffing eighties style with Bitch Of A Place To Be. The first four tracks, together with More For Me and Victim You are all good straight heavy metal songs, but the rest of the album include a pair of rather poor songs, a cheesy ballad in I Still Care and a couple of decent fillers.

There are many riffs that can be traced back to their past work and everything else would have come as a total surprise. The album's best song is speedy Past The Point, even if it has resemblances with Dio's Don't Talk To Strangers. This is a cool document of what they sounded like back then and all in all a decent album. Not great, not bad.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	4	5	6	5

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - Tobbe