It is pointless to search for new great Glam and Sleaze Metal bands in our present time. But the Swedish school teaches music to the children like no other European country (maybe the rest of the Scandinavian countries do).
CRAZY LIXX was formed in 2002 by Dirtchild Danny and Vic Zino, fans of the Glam Rock scene of the '80s and early '90s. Bored of the Nu Metal shit they decided that action had to be taken: nice Rock n' Roll music along with aggressive riffs has to survive in this hell whole. After the Do Or Die single and the Heroes Are Forever EP, Swedmetal Records released CRAZY LIXX's first album called Loud Minority.

The album kicks in with a classic drum and bass intro that has an obvious MOTLEY CRUE signature in the sound and mid tempo rhythm (a mix of Dr. Feelgood and Shout At The Devil), strong and loud backing vocals. Dr. Hollywood comes in next to make the fans of RATT and HARDLINE extremely happy with the major chords and the clean guitar verse that progresses really nice until the chorus climax.
The sound is really nice with Chris Laney's experience on the production and arrangement of the songs; if you listen really closely you can tell that he fixed the whole thing from the number of things that happened in the background. Chris has worked with a great number of artists like CANDLEMASS, CRASHDIET and Bruce Kulick to name a few. Especially the full guitar sound of Vig Zino makes the album even tastier to the hard rocker's and metalhead's ears.

Want It is the first single of Loud Minority and has a great catchy chorus, melodic to the bone, really strong. Love On The Run and Make Ends Meet are two songs that I can only describe us 'easy songs', easy to make and easy for the listener to listen add pass by without anything special.

Death Row gives a different tone on the album with an upper bit and has an early-year-GUNS N' ROSES tone. With lyrics like ...loving you is like a death row honey..., I think that CRAZY LIXX have what it takes inside to make a career on Hard Sleaze Glam Rock music.

Boneyard is the last of the aggressive songs in Loud Minority; a great intro that reminded me a little bit of the punk-ness that DEAD KENNEDYS had, but then the aggressive guitar kicks in as Dirtchild Danny screams at the top of his voice and the song becomes SKID ROW (from Slave To The Grind) plus MOLTLEY CRUE.
The last song is the acoustic ballad that every Hard Rock album has, a CINDERELLA's Heartbreak Station feeling comes in my ears but still The Gamble is a simple one guitar and vocal song with strong emotions about the chances of getting hurt, the things you put on the line for love. On the last chorus the emotions are reaching the climax for the electric guitar solo to close the album with monophonic acoustic guitar fade out.

CRAZY LIXX, with that kind of production and songwriting, prove they are here to stay and that these guys from Sweden are the new fresh faces that Hard Sleaze Rock needed to be alive again.