This review was published in the May 2025 issue of Classic Rock magazine, no. 339.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Brobdingnagian hair metallers walk the earth once more. This review was published in the May 2025 issue of Classic Rock magazine, no. 339. – Brobdingnagian hair metallers walk the earth once more. Too late to garner real success with Last of the Runaways (1989), Giant fell victim to the Nirvana roach bomb, alongside any other remaining hair metal bands. Once the smog had cleared, the … Continue reading Giant: Stand and Deliver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Too late to garner real success with Last of the Runaways<\/em> (1989), Giant fell victim to the Nirvana roach bomb, alongside any other remaining hair metal bands. Once the smog had cleared, the writing was on the wall and Giant disbanded after releasing 1991\u2019s Time to Burn<\/em>. Since reanimating in 2001, the band have produced an album roughly every decade, and Stand and Deliver<\/em> arrives (relatively) hot on the heels of 2022\u2019s Shifting Tim<\/em>e.
Original guitarist\/vocalist\/songwriter Dann Huff provides heartfelt ballad Time To Call It Love<\/em>, blazingarenastomper Holdin’ On For Dear Life<\/em> andlighters-aloft showstopper Paradise Found<\/em>, where ex-Perfect Plan Swede Kent Hilli proves his explosive vocal chops across each explosive hook, his style remaining comfortably similar to Huff.
Jimmy Westerlund produces as well as playing lead guitars, creating a thoroughly modern sound with all the trappings of the melodic rock that Giant are known and overlooked for.
8\/10
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