GREYSTONE CANYON While The Wheels Still Turn CD (2018)

Melbourne has always punched above its weight in hard rock, and Greystone Canyon are proof the city never stopped swinging. While The Wheels Still Turn is the kind of record that sounds like it was road-tested on long hauls down the Hume, built for volume and forward momentum.

This is meat-and-potatoes hard rock done with conviction, drawing from the same well as the great bluesy British and American acts of the genre without sounding derivative. Riff-forward, melodically sharp, and grounded in the kind of songwriting that values a good hook over technical showboating. Australian alternative music has a proud tradition of hard rock acts flying under the international radar while quietly making some of the best records in the genre, and this sits comfortably in that lineage.

CD, 2018. Australian release. Melbourne band.

Fans of: Blackwater Conspiracy, Voodoo Circle, Spread Eagle, Anvil