Tag: Killer Dwarfs
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As recent Metal Monday posts show, I lately became a big fan of the Killer Dwarfs. I’ve loved their songs since first seeing the video for “Keep the Spirit Alive” waaaaayyy back in the winter of 1986-87. But it was seeing them live not just once, but twice, within a year in 2019 that got…
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For me, the Killer Dwarfs’ second live album, Live, No Guff! had two barriers to hurdle. First, I bought it at the concert where I first saw them live, when they and Kick Axe opened for Helix, and they were fantastic. How could a recording live up to that? Second, I wasn’t super keen on…
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While not technically a Killer Dwarfs album, Russ Dwarf’s Wireless is a worthy addition for any Dwarfs completist, featuring acoustic reworkings of many of their best-known songs. As with any album of acoustic versions, Wireless has its ups and down. (Points to Russ “Dwarf” Graham for calling it that instead of “unplugged,” which conjures up…
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On Start at One, the Killer Dwarfs wail like the early 1990s never went away. As far as the album is concerned, it’s true. The Dwarfs originally recorded Start at One (stylized as Start @ One) in 1993 with the same band lineup as Method to the Madness: Russ Graham on vocals, Darrell Millar on…
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Much (perhaps too much) has been written about the demise of heavy metal as a commercial force in the wake of grunge in the early 1990s. And certainly, a lot of 1980s cock-rock bands found themselves out in the cold in a post-Nirvana and Pearl Jam world. That was too bad for the Killer Dwarfs,…
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On Dirty Weapons, the Killer Dwarfs incorporate more range and diversity in their sound, and the album was a worthy follow-up to Big Deal. The image they portrayed was less goofball than on the previous two albums. But the seriousness that was always a part of their lyrics remained. The eponymous album opener, “Dirty Weapons,”…