Track Listing

1. Burn The Witch
2. Don't Drink The Water
3. Defend Or Die
4. You Brought A Knife To A Gunfight
5. Magdalene Street
6. Where You Coming From
7. Lazy Bones
8. I'm With The Band
9. Start Of Something
10. Making It Hard
11. Wasting Time
12. Knight Of The Living Dead
13. Oh Where My Beero

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14809 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

CD Description
After the demise of the shortly lived but incredibly successful British hard rock outfit The Darkness, co-founder Dan Hawkins regrouped with bass player Richie Edwards and drummerEd Graham to form Stone Gods. With their tongues still firmly in their cheeks, Stone Gods deliver an album of full-on metal edged hard rock while sticking with the humorous lyrical content that made The Darkness such a huge success. The single 'Burn The Witch' is also included.

Customer Reviews

Out of THE DARKNESS
I got hold of a preview of this album, and being big fan of the darkness a few years back, I was expecting to be disappointed.

I was hooked from the very first track BURN THE WITCH, which I believe is their first single, which ends with a bit of thrash metal stylee guitar shredding. This band are a lot heavier than the darkness ever were, and I don't think can be seen as a novelty band which was a kinda label that the darkness couldn't really shake.

I have had this cd for a week, and its been playing in my works van non-stop on repeat....it's a catchy album!

The bands seem to have gelled well with new addition of Toby MacFarlaine (out of Graham Coxons band), and Ritchie Edwards seems to have taken over well at the mic.

There's not quite as many of the thin-lizzy inspired twin lead guitar-work on here as on the darkness, as I suspect Ritchie is playing rythm guitar, and not dabbling too much.

There's influences you can here from a few artists....some acdc, and a little thin lizzy in places (as with the darkness), track 12 has DEFINITELY got a reminicence of Def Leppard about it.

I can't pick out a bad track on here, like I say its been playing non stop in my van, and I think it will be for quite some time.

This is what the darkness SHOULD have been like!!

I hope Stone Gods have huge success with this album, and I hope many folk will be as pleasantly surprised by this cd as I were.

Brilliant
Just to set the scene, I am late 30's and a fan of rock/metal in general. I can enjoy anything from Matchbox 20 to Metallica.
I wasn't expecting too much from Stone Gods, but seeing the Classic rock review made me sit up and take notice. I'm glad I did.
The first few listens were encouraging. Burn The Witch being the best. Similar to the Darkness in terms of riffing but this time supporting by the awesome rock vocals of Richie Edwards. A perfect match.
The songs are all great. Not a single filler, and a lot of variation, but not too much so that you find the album disjointed.
There's a few potential commercial singles, but thankfully they sit nicely with the rest of the (heavier) songs and don't sound out of place at all.
I'd played the album around 10 times when it suddenly became a "repeat play" album - something which doesn't happen too often with me these days. The only song I do skip is the final one O Whereo my beero, which is ok but a little pedestrian compared to the sheer quality before it.
I checked out how the album and singles had done just now and couldn't believe how lacklustre the sales have been. The Darkness' hype obviously made the difference because this albums kicks both of their albums into touch and deserves so much more.
Awesome songs, awesome singing, awesome riffing. Buy it.

Rock AND a hard place
I was never a fan of the Darkness with the screechy Justin Hawkins lording it over everything. The only saving grace was that they kept guitar based rock in the charts and in the public eye I suppose. But now they have got rid of the dandy the rest of the band can get on with doing what they so obviously did and now do well.

They Rock!

Other reviewers have nailed the influences, but to me all you need to know is that this is good, old-fashioned yet bang up to date heavy rock.

There are more riffs per minute here than we probably deserve, the vocals are well handled by Richie Edwards, who can shout sing, scream and lets face it sing as well as anyone on the scene right now.

Vying with Airbourne for rock album of the year so far.