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Hair Metal Happy Hour

OUR LOVE OF NITRO / MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO IS NOT IRONIC

 Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 1:59pm by

And thankfully, Sergeant D of MetalInquisition is inclined to agree:

Let’s be perfectly clear: If you don’t like Nitro, you’re not my fucking friend. Obviously Nitro are completely ridiculous, but I 100% non-ironically love this band as Skullkrusher and Lucho Metales [other MI writers] can attest to. They had the biggest hair, the highest screams, the fastest solos, and the sickest riffs. I can listen to “OFR” a million times in a row. Also, the liner notes and lyrics are priceless, like the note that admonishes “DRUGZ R 4 DUMBFUKKS, DON’T BE A DUMBFUKK.” Everything about the band is totally absurd, but their songwriting is fucking awesome and the retarded lyrics just make me love them that much more.

Perfectly said, Mr. D. For similar non-guilty pleasure missives on the likes of Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Ugly Kid Joe (complete with baja jackets!), Tuff, and Pretty Boy Floyd, pay the cats at MetalInquisition a visit.

In the meantime, enjoy the video for Nitro’s “Freight Train:”

-VN

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  • Tommy Leebowitz

    And here I was thinking that I was the only person who actually liked Nitro in a non-ironic sense.

  • http://www.myspace.com/grownfromthecold Luke

    Fucking sweet. That’s all I have to say.

  • michael k

    good ol nitro. I bought O.F.R off amazon for 30 bucks last year. Well worth the money

  • Mike

    O.O nice fucking solo shit lol

  • http://www.benapatoff.blogspot.com Ben

    Really not my type of metal at all, and yet I can’t go a week without listening to “Machine Gunn Eddie.” I’ve tried.

  • Sammy

    I totally get MAB as a guilty pleasure or for the sheer wonderment of watching his super fast playing. But I just can’t get past the one-note-Johnny gimmick of his schtick and the bad wig.

  • gnarlk

    over under, over under, over under, over under
    tech glam, yipee…

  • TedTedPoleyPoley

    after watching that video and remembering some of the old old pictures of pre-Skid Row Sebastian Bach, i have to say Jim Gillette was probably who Sebastian wanted to look like everytime he got out of bed in the morning circa 1987

  • Majestic Ice Unicorn

    When one of the dudes in Nitro scored a groupie and got them into the sack, it definitely must have just looked like two chicks with big hair rolling around in bed.

  • mo biscuits

    i remember back when this came out there was a review in a mag…. hit parader, metal edge or somethin, cant recall but the review read “this is dickhead music plain and simple”

  • Jim Gilletowicz

    fucking loves it

  • hegster

    jesus tap-dancing christ that was awful.
    not to mention the video quality looks like something of sega CD

  • swag

    All I have to say is, HWDWS is even better than OFR.

  • mycockislarge

    fantastic band. man, i love imitating freight train on utube.

    it actually is: search steve92crue and freight train on utube. i tried hard