SPiT LiKE THiS Reviews

CACKBLABBATH.COM Live Review December 2013
We’ve been meaning to catch up with Spit Like This for a while now, and at Hard Rock Hell VII the opportunity finally arrived to check ‘em out. Well as they’d made the long drag up to Pwlheli from the south of England it would be rude not to. It’s a fact of live that sometimes festival running orders can be a little unkind to smaller bands, and I did wonder how many folk would come see SLT as they coincided almost exactly with the small matter of Airbourne’s headline set on the main stage..

Well, I suppose if you want the musical opposite of antipodean route one metal, then good old English glam punk isn’t a bad choice, and the decent crowd had packed into the second stage was a testament to how popular SLT are becoming.

And the first impression? Well Spit Like This are a whole lot of fun live. Lord Zion is a proper old school frontman, I’d imagine I’m not the first to make the obvious comparison to Iggy Pop, but he’s certainly got that vibe going on in terms of intensity and stage presence… he’s no slouch in the vocals department either which is always a bonus, for a singer.

Of course off to his left he has the inimitable Vikki Spit, a small girl with a big bass. You’ll know her on stage, she’s the one being followed by the lenses of every photographer… “These photographers are trying to take photos of my knickers. Well the joke’s on them…. I’m not wearing any”

Anyone who has seen the band before knows what’s coming, but as a SLT noob I was delighted when things took a turn for the weird half way through, with a cover of Sweet Transvestite from Rocky Horror. This was a song that apparently almost didn’t make it into the set, with Zion saying before the show “Dunno whether to play Sweet Transvestite. Every time I think everyone must be bored with it by now, we get lynched for not playing it”.

Well regular fans may get bored with it, but us newcomers to the SLT party thought it was a brilliant inclusion. It just kinda fits the band’s image perfectly, and you can’t beat a good cheesy cover version to get the slightly inebriated up and dancing.

Spit Like This are passionate about what they do, and by fuck they do it well. Whether it’s the camp silliness of Sweet Transvestite or the dark and angry Dead To Me Now (a song about someone they sacked for, as Vikki so succinctly puts it, being a cunt) Spit Like This never take their foot off the gas, and you can’t help but get swept along by the whole occasion.

They’ll never be everyone’s cup of tea, but then again, I don’t imagine they’d want to be. If you get the chance to check them out you should, they may just be yours.

METAL-TRAILS.COM Album Review (Germany), September 2013
74% - Read review in German here

BLOODYGOODHORROR.COM Album Review (USA), July 2013
"Nickelback.

That’s an extremely charged word for anyone who has a more-than-casual interest in music of any type. Nickelback has come to symbolize all that is wrong with mainstream radio, the music industry and the lowest common denominator. More to the point, Nickelback also represents the current state of popular rock, encompassing the twin ideas of sleaze and arena rock.

The keyword in all that as it pertains to SPiT LiKE THiS (I’m only typing that once,) is “sleaze.” Since the advent of Nickelback, sleaze, a once proud genre that couldn’t even be killed off by late-era hair metal, has been pushed to the margins, virtually left for dead by the underground, and abandoned by metal. Spit Like This is on a journey to bring sleaze back (cue Justin Timberlake?) And it’s not really a secret. At last report, the band traveled around in a customized hearse called “The Boner” after all.

But this band is promoting sleaze through it’s most traditional path – dripping with image and rolled in Rocky-Horror-drama. If listeners are taking songs like “The Dumb Song” seriously, then they’re either looking for something that isn’t there or missing the point. The tongue of “Normalityville Horror” is buried so far in cheek that it’s like there’s a popcorn fleck bothering the palette of the band. (Side note: “The Dumb Song” has a chorus that reminds a little of Motley Crue’s “Dr Feelgood.” Just sayin’.)

The band then combines their unveiled humor with a Misfits-ian sense of songcraft and the absurd. This explains the cadence and pop sensibility of the title track and “Dragged Kicking and Screaming” the latter of which could have almost, ALMOST passed as a song at a high school dance in the early sixties. Following in the tradition of the Misfits, Ramones and all the pioneers of American punk, Spit Like This (who is English, for the record,) are playing the roots of rock and roll at a faster speed more than anything else.

There is another side to “Normality Horror” and that is Spit Like This’ ability to turn on the edge at the drop of the needle. Suddenly and out of nowhere we have the opening, de-tuned chug of “Very Very Good at Being Bad” or “Teen Angel” both of which are pleasant surprises amidst normally light-hearted fare.

If I were the type of person who rated albums out of ten (and I’m not, for reasons I’ve stated before,) this record would be a seven, give or take half a point. Most times, a seven is a great record that has a flaw or two, but “Normalityville Horror” is free of critical flaws. Rather, it also possesses no particular ascension. It’s a very solid jack-of-all-trades record, but I suppose the subtext there is that it is a master of none.

Spit Like This and their new (albeit re-released) album are buoyed by spot-on idiomatic performances, most notably that of head vocalist Lord Zion, who uses his voice as another instrument to set the tone and pump up the sleaze for the forty minute duration. If sleaze is ever to break free and return to accepted prominence, it will take the continued, well-heeled effort of bands like this. “Normalityville Horror” is a very good start."

GETYOURROCKOUT.CO.UK Live Review (UK), November 2012
"The Gathering has only been around for six months or so as a live music venue but has already gained a reputation for putting on top bands in a friendly atmosphere where even the rock pub tag hasn’t deterred quite a few of the locals from making it their regular watering hole. The quality of the beer (and food) along with a genuinely warm welcome are fast making it a truly great small venue.

Things didn’t bode well for this gig early in the day, as the Spit Like This tour bus decided to pull a sickie and popped its head gasket which would have seen many bands simply make a phone call and leave the venue to fill the void. This clearly is not how these glam punkers work though and to their immense credit they hired a new (I use the term loosely) van and made the gig. They did this not knowing the venue apart from the fact that it is small (capacity is one hundred), so if ever karma was to see them right, it turned out tonight would be it.

Right from the first thud of Vile Gilez drums it’s clear that everyone in the building is here to party; we have young metal moshers, some very large middle aged bikers and even an incredibly sprightly octogenarian all having a great time together. Lord Zion struts his stuff like a young Iggy Pop, with a voice which cuts surprising well through the deft bass of Vikki Spit and busy guitar of Rob Riot, indeed the sound tonight it has to be said is top class. We’re treated to a big slice of new album ‘Normalityville Horror’ with a few oldies thrown in for good measure, along with a delicious cover of ‘Sweet Transvestite’ from the Rocky Horror film. This is a high energy performance where the sheer force of things simply rubs off on an increasingly enthusiastic crowd, then feeds back to a band who are clearly having a great time. It’s hard to pick a highlight when things are this good but ‘Zero To Sixty’ is a worthy lead single from the new release; it has a groove that just makes you want to nod your head regardless. ‘Sick Of It All’ has a brutal tribal like drum beat that just doesn’t know when to quit and ‘Dead To Me Now’ simply rocks. No matter how good your songs are though you need to deliver them, you need to connect with your audience and you need to keep the crowd involved, and Z man is a master at all of these, so much so that the band end up doing four encores before the crowd finally let them off the stage.

Even with a long journey home ahead of them all the band members make as much time as needed to mix with everyone after the show, signing merch, answering questions and just happily chatting. Because of this, because a broken van didn’t deter them, and because they proved to be not just a great band but four people with a warm heart and an ever present smile they made a fair few new fans and friends tonight. Lets hope we see Spit Like This return to The Gathering in the very near future."

THEMIDLANDSROCKS.COM "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (UK), August 2012
"Let’s be honest, there’s an awful lot of very mediocre stuff currently out there in the underground/metal/alternative scene, whatever you want to call it. It seems with all the latest technology and gizmos available then every band can be bedroom producers/engineers leading to the old axiom, quantity over quality and I get an awful lot of below par quality hit my inbox these days. So when I come across the rare gems secreted in the piles of pap, it certainly brightens up my day.

Normalityville Horror from Spit Like This is one of those gems, gleaming out from the dull bedrock this 10 track album sparkles from start to finish.

It’s a right rollicking R’n'R roller coaster with lots of highs and a couple of lows, but over all a great album to stick on and liven up any party!

There’s a nod and a wink of course to the shock meister himself Mr Alice Cooper, with the punky and sleazy undertones of The Misfits and The Cramps but this is a collection of songs that are very British, yeah the lyrics are a bit basic and cheesy at times, but that doesn’t detract from the fun element at all.

SLT are a highly popular underground act with a cult following world wide and this album will only serve to reinforce that, front man Lord Zion and his partner in crime, Vikki Spit(bass) are masters of the social networks and a few bands can learn from them, but they know their limitations and drafted in top engineers/producers Chris Tsangarides and Dave Cousins to work with them and that’s the difference, band members take note you may be a great singer or shredder but that don’t make you a great engineer/mixer.

This is not a perfect diamond by all means, it has it’s flaws, but even a flawed diamond is still a diamond and there’s enough sparkle in this gem to keep you happy.

Best track? Gotta be final track “Dead To Me Now”, a pounding Horror Rock Anthem"

ROARROCK.CO.UK "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (UK), July 2012
Right then here we go it’s time to review another new release. And this time on the deck we have “Normalityville Horror” By Spit Like This.

SPiT LiKE THiS have spent the past few years building up a great fan base around Europe and with this release they are sure to cement their place as one of the UK’s best live bands.

Everything about SLT is about having a good time, Sing a long chorus’s, chugging Bass from Vikki Spit and pounding drums from Vile Gilez make the backbone of the sound of “Normality”.

with this release they are sure to cement their place as one of the UK’s best live bands

Solid riffage and shredding from Rob Riot and great vocals from Lord Zion add the top layer that give this release a solid sound and of course have the master that is ChrisTsangarides working the production can only make for a cracking release…Well is it any good?

Actually from the start to the very last breath ” Normalityville Horror” keeps you listening and keeps you bouncing and for me if you’ve got the bounce you’ve got my attention and hopefully that of everyone else.

The track listings goes just like this,
Sick / Normalityville Horror / Zero to Sixty / Very Very good at being bad / Dragged Kicking and Screaming / Teen Angel / The life & Times of the Suicide Kid / Oh no!here we go! / The Dumb song / Dead to me now

With Spit Like This you know you’re in for a great night out with the band sporting a comic book look and cover art to suit it’s always going to be fun. If you buy one cd, buy this one if you go and see one band go and see Spit Like This.

If you buy one cd, buy this one if you go and see one band go and see Spit Like This. In fact with a tour in the pipeline you can do just that. Check out the bands website for more details www.spitlikethis.com.

Roarrock gives Normalityville Horror and bloody great big 4/5 Roars

BLEEDING4METAL.DE "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (Germany, June 2012 - this is a translation from the German!)
[Translation] "SPIT LIKE THIS are the product of the up on next generation so far very fertile relationship between the dazzling front Exzentriker Lord Zion and Vikki spit bassist. The band consistently committed itself to the Rockstartum and lives their own dream of the rock ' n' roll in a similarly colored as exceptional way. Their debut album "we won't hurt you (but we won't go away)" could ensure, especially in UK stir and persuaded the pre-orders for the second album by this very early "Normalityville Horror". Obviously, you had only waited SPIT LIKE THIS. The band has - there in social networks active already very internet-affine and heavily personally (each fan is only advised Lord Zion and Vikki spit on Facebook to add) - since the recording sessions last year a very personal look at the images and work on the second album admitted, from the inclined reader and fan easily could see, that really much work is in the detail. Not without reason the band also worked on small details such as such as the exact temporal distance between two songs (0.5 or 1 sec can make as much of the feeling produced).

"Normalityville Horror" plays - SPIT LIKE THIS had always an affinity to - visually and otherwise strong with B-movie clichés. That starts with the very successful cover and runs like a thread through the whole album. In the opener, 'Sick', it is clear that the band could increase on all along the line. Lord Zion has screwed his vocal performance significantly upwards and you consistently notice that with Chris Tsangarides (Yes, exactly the one that PRIEST as already JUDAS's so cracking sound "Painkiller" let) was a very experienced man at the controls of the production. Also songwritingtechnisch, SPIT LIKE THIS have turned the screw, for the ten songs are sophisticated imaginative and full of variety. Fortunately, waive boring ballads of the Lord and his faithful, but give gas, while they draw a bleak illustrious Sittengemälde of horror of naked normality. A basic punk attitude within classical, unused, a touch of early Mötley CRÜE, tattooed, full of Glam factor without the embarrassment of bygone days, and overall just rock 'n roll... "Normalityville Horror" convinced on all along the line. Filling material was consistently out left, left after itself and the big meaning behind everything a slim, crunchy album of full anthems of a generation in search.

SPIT LIKE THIS create their own benchmark album zwo Nummero a good deal higher – on the way up is finally no room for downtime. "Normalityville Horror" shows how contemporary rock ' n' roll with retro factor anno 2012 to sound and looks.

Rating: 8/10 points"

THEUPCOMING.CO.UK Live Review (UK), June 2012
"The first act, a local band called Spit Like This is a horror-punk band with intense staccato drumbeats heard throughout the set and guitar riffs cutting the air like a knife. With a vocalist who loves what he does, swaggering around the stage, poking fun at everyone and everything, they illustrate what William Control wants his audience to feel. Playing a set of songs from their latest album, Normalityville Horror interjected with an interesting cover of Sweet Transvestite from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spit Like This are a promising start to the night."

SINISTER ANGELS REALM "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (UK), May 2012
"Lord Zion, Vicky Spit and Co return with their second album and the follow up to 2009's debut, We Wont Hurt You, But We Wont Go Away, in the form of Normalityville Horror.

Here we have more of what Spit Like This do best, a perfect blend of Hard Rock / Punk / Sleaze / Rockabilly and sixties rock 'n' roll musical influences. To be honest, the best way to describeSpit Like This is to imagine if you threw Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Early Motley Crue along with some Sixties Rock N Roll into a blender, then mixed the result with a healthy dose of Rocky Horror, then you maybe close to describing the bands sound. The songs themselves are full of life almost theatrical, cominag accross kind of like a modern day Rocky horror Picture Show!

From the opening moments of Sick to the closing riffs of dead To Me Now, this album is pure Spit Like This, pure and simple.
the only fault that I can find is that despite having the skills of one Chris Tsangarides on hand as producer, sometimes the songs just feel a little too loose for me, nit picking probably, but hey Spit Like This have never fitted into any particular genre any how so who am I to comment lol.

Stand out tracks for me include, Zero To Sixty, Very Very Good At Being Bad, Teen Angel and Dead To Me Now.
If you're a fan of the band then you are going to love this album, if you have never heard of them, well check them out, you never know you may discover a unique new band to love!

Rating 8/10"

THEROCKPIT.NET "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (Australia), May 2012
4.5/5 "You’ve had those days when you want to walk away from your jobs, turn your back on all the idiots harping and making demands upon you, get into a souped up supercharged chrome n’ black pirate flag-sporting hot rod of doom and put the pedal to the metal as you roar down the highway to hell… and now you have the ultimate soundtrack to accompany the ride!

SPiT LiKE THiS’s second album was recorded last year with Grammy winning producer Chris Tsangarides, and has stayed under wraps for what seems like forever, while Tsangarides put his own record label – Dark Lord Records – together.

From the initial staccato burst of drum fire, these ten tracks sound huge – SPiT LiKE THiS have never sounded better, from Vile Gilez’s punk-Bonham drums, Vikki Spit’s insurgently driving bass lines to Rob Riot’s chainsaw guitars slicing through the air.

Where in the past STL have sounded like Lord Zion’s pet project, on “Normalityville Horror” all the pieces gel and Tsangarides has captured the charismatic frontman perfectly within the sound of a great band firing on all cylinders.

There’s not a filler in sight as SLT fire off an opening salvo with the punky Sick, tirade against the mainstream on the title track, and roar down that highway in a Mad Max-styled charger through Zero To Sixty.

Very Very Good At Being Bad sees Zion doing what he does best, poking fun and having the time of his life, before Dragged Kicking & Screaming once again rails against the norm.

Whilst not a concept album per se, the theme of being a wilful outsider and refusing to conform runs strong throughout the album, and Zion’s continual positive reinforcement of the counter culture with his clever and insightful lyrics ensure proceedings never flag for a moment.

Teen Angel leads into the glampunk folk storytelling of The Life & Times Of The Suicide Kid, before the barbed wire rock of Oh No! Here We Go! Just when you think they can’t possibly sustain these enormous energy levels, The Dumb Song kicks out seven kinds of jams, before the spitting vitriol of Dead To Me Now closes the album on another high note.

“Normalityville Horror” takes all the elements which up til this point had made SPiT LiKE THiS entertaining and fun, puts them in the hands of one of the finest producers to ever walk the earth, and delivers the sound of a group of musos who have found their feet and become greater than the sum of their parts. This album deserves to be the breakthrough which cross SLT over to radio and – God forbid – the charts. How ironic would that be!"

TOM GIRARD BBC GUERNSEY "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (UK) May 2012
"The sleazey glamsters find a new level, and the sound they’ve been searching for, on album number two.

I’ve had a passing interest in the work of Spit Like This for quite a few years, since I spotted an ad for one of their gigs while seeing what was going during a trip to Colchester… it turned out the band were playing the day after I left, but, the images and logos used were enough to grab my attention.

When the band visited Guernsey for Chaos 2010 my interest was piqued and I ordered their debut album We Won’t Hurt You (But We Won’t Go Away) and very much enjoyed that and their gig on our little island.

Since then however, once the ‘they were awesome guys and it was great seeing them live’ novelty had worn off, I haven’t often revisited much of that album save for the ace Sex, Drugs and Heavy Metal and their version of Sweet Transvestite (in which Lord Zion proves he was born to play Frank N Furter, something I’d love to see in a full production of Rocky Horror if I’m honest).

None-the-less I was excited about the prospect of the band’s second full length, Normalityville Horror, for two major reasons: One was that they would be working with legendary producer Chris Tsangerides (who in the past has worked on classics with metal legends such as Judas Priest and King Diamond) and secondly due to the addition to the band of guitarist Rob Riot, who had co-written Sex, Drugs and Heavy Metal with Lord Zion.

As soon as I’d pressed play on Normalityville Horror though it was clear Spit Like This had moved on in leaps and bounds since their previous recordings.

While the band have clearly retained the spirit which makes them who they are (and is a major part of the Spit Like This brand) here they have added a new depth and thickness to the sound and the songwriting which makes for a much more satisfying record.

Across the album Zion’s lyrics retain their mix of ‘dangerous’ sleaze and tongue in cheek attitude, combined with their ever-present railing against ‘normality’ and standing up for freaks, geeks and outsiders, which fans of this kind of music are, almost without exception.

While in the past the band seemed to trade almost exclusively on the attitude of the frontman (and bassist Vikki Spit), now they really have the music to back it up too, with Rob Riot’s guitars being full on heavy metal but with a twist that left me thinking of something maybe 80% straight up metal and 20% of the sound of bands like The Wildhearts and, if I’m honest, if this album belongs to any instrument (besides the vocals) it is the guitars, seemingly even more so than other rock ‘n’ roll records.

This combination has led to a great record that, while it still probably won’t launch the band into the Top 10, certainly is capable of spreading their music to a wider audience through the infectious sense of sleazy fun that seems to run through the lives and music of the band and some cracking rock songs and, if you want a song that really stands out and acts as a microcosm of the whole album to check out, I’d recommend The Life and Times of The Suicide Kid."

NOIZY.GR "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (Greece, May 2012 - this is a translation from the Greek!)
[Translation] "The English are not random band ... Anyone who has seen live on stage will agree with me that they have that "something" ... What will make them stars one day. In the summer of 2011 played in Wacken and this is something that only VERY FEW new bands succeed. On the other hand again, when you have a shape like this, you can not deny the many. The incredible madness and who carry a unique style is just a passport to success.

When I learned that you called their new album "Normalityville Horror", came to my mind a totally perverted version of "Grease" and a "Rocky Horror Show" already packed more and more shocking, a transvestite thriller shamelessly. Listening to the songs I conclude that I have not fallen much out ... A Major Rock in the aplysia and the expensive perfume ... For example, "Dragged Kicking & Screaming" is a prime piece of party, but who knows what you did last summer ...

The title track is a top, the "Zero to sixty" is a super-hit, will sound tremendously and bring the band many new fans. I told someone that I went to the Elvis from space landed in the eighties, and he gathered that Sleazato Lemmyato found and made for the times we live now.

The production and mixing are the enormous stress and Chris Tsangarides fully and naturally the temperament of Londoners. Something that really flies in "Life & times of the suicide kid". There are outbursts of Metal here, which of course are grown throughout the album. Yes, I know ... What titles are they still ... Yeah, why not? We are talking now about the manifesto. The manifesto is signed by the clean and Karga theatrical voice of the Lord Zion and flawless playing of the band. Do you remember me, this album will be ... show!"

ROCK PAGES "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (Greece, May 2012)
"Somewhere between Alice Cooper, KISS, and Twisted Sister you will find Spit Like This, an English band that serves rock in its most shocking incarnations, as well as punk, or Glam Punk Rock, as they call it very well for the last ten years, 6 EP’S and 2 full length albums.

On 'Normalityville Horror' you will get an idea of what the band is all about, which is hard riffs, melody, Lord Zion’s trademark vocals that will remind you of Dave Vanian of the Damned, as well as the Cult’s Ian Astbury, and…paranoia that won’t let you pigeon-hole them, because they are totally unpredictable! In total contrast with their classically structured songs that go from bridge to chorus, you will find a couple that don’t fall into that category, but are longer in duration and there is a lot of things going on inside them! Listenint to the album in full you will make up your mind about the band’s influences since they become more evident and include gothic, sleaze, and metal, as well as bands like Queen, the Cramps, even Rob Zombie!

If you really like the Wildhearts, and British new wave and punk, and you haven’t discovered them yet, you should check them out!"

LET THE MUSIC DO THE TALKING "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (UK, May 2012)
"Spit Like This have been described as 'punk as fuck glam cult heroes' - but does their upcoming release “Normalityville Horror” support this? It’s a definite yes from me. This second SLT album marks the tenth year of the band, and is quite possibly the best release to date in their sizeable discography.

If you are unfamiliar with their sound, try Metallica, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, early Motley Crue and a touch of 80s goth in a big old musical blender. Spit Like This are influenced 'visually, artistically and musically' by a number of different acts spanning the glam rock/metal, hard rock and punk genres, as well as art forms such as burlesque and 80s movies, and indeed you can hear horror movie influences in their music, aswell as their gig transport - how many bands do you know have had a hearse as a touring van?

Spit Like This are no ordinary glam metal band. They’re different to the masses out there, relying more on great musicianship and songwriting than putting more thought into the look/stage act as so many other bands out there seem to be doing. The band take their music and themselves seriously, but not too seriously - there’s still room for a bit of fun such as the slightly humourous “Dragged Kicking and Screaming”, which is quite fun sounding (it’s also good live if you get the chance). From opener “Sick” right on to the end, Normalityville Horror is full of rhythmic fast-paced rock that is full of attitude. Take “The Dumb Song” for example, plenty of riffage of the likes of old Motley Crue but with a singalong angsty chorus in the style of mid 90s Marilyn Manson. “Oh No! Here We Go” or “Dead to Me Now” feature in-your-face guitar licks to rival that of Tracii Guns in his heyday. Beyond the riffs, the album also calls upon bluesy rock influences in the style of Faster Pussycat on the track “The Life and Times of the Suicide Kid” - having a multitude of different influences certainly helps, and it definitely shows on Normalityville Horror - it’s hard to class any song here as filler.

Normalityville Horror is set for release on the 21st of May and is available for pre-order now from all good outlets."

STREET VOICE UK "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review (UK, May 2012)
"I've been looking forward to hearing this album and I have to say I'm left feeling well impressed. Spit Like This certainly know how to deliver some decent Rock N Roll numbers and the proof lies with tracks such as 'Normalityville Horror', 'Very Very Good At Being Bad', 'The Life & Times Of The Suicide Kid' and 'Oh No! Here We Go!'. For those who've not heard Spit Like This they have their own sound which fuses Punk, Rock and the Garage Rock N Roll sound coming out of the USA. They're a top band who deliver quality music with no compromise. Love them! 8.5/10"

UBER ROCK "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Album Review by Steve Beebee (UK, April 2012)
""This is my love letter to those who take too much. Pride comes before a fall, trust me - your time will come."

So seethes Spit Like This frontman Lord Zion on 'Sick', the considered but spite-fuelled track that open his band's second album, 'Normalityville Horror'. Aimed sharply at 'industry' types who have stood in the way, not done their jobs, and lied through their teeth, 'Sick' is a satisfying slice of payback.

Being just about the coolest looking band in the UK, and playing music that sounds like no-one else, Spit Like This are not a band you're likely to see embraced by the mainstream media or music industry at large. Looking like visitors to Mos Eisley spaceport when the industry wants you to look like You Me At fucking Six, Spit Like This are instantly seen as a threat. And playing jagged music, veering from darkness to light, embracing everything from glam to horror-punk, from camp to chaos, when the industry wants you to sound like the aural equivalent of green tea, again takes you to a different plane.

The spoon-fed, shit-swallowing Simon Cowell generation won't get Spit Like This - but if you're reading Über Röck, there's a good chance you will.

'Normalityville Horror' takes what was hinted at on debut 'We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away)' and gives it flesh and colour. This is only partly thanks to the heavyweight production skills of Chris Tsangarides, who can list everyone from Judas Priest to, famously, Anvil, on his CV. Love or hate them, you can't argue with the fact that Spit Like This sound like nothing but themselves, and the freedom they had in making this album is obvious.

Lord Zion fronts the whole thing in a fashion that never fails to intrigue. From camp, hands-on-hips outrage to cool croon to Elvis swivel, he's berating you, drill sergeant-style, one moment and standing tall for the underdog the next. All of the above makes its presence felt in the rollercoaster title track, before 'Zero To Sixty' sees this album make the leap into hyperspace. Perhaps the single most enjoyable three-minutes of this band's career to date, this is a speeding, gear-shifting psychobilly classic. Drummer Vile Gilez keeps this one rattling along in a rush of muscle car adrenaline. "Can I make this U-turn?" ponders Zion, a bug-eyed tattooed speed freak singing with the accent and charm of a Victorian English adventurer.

'Very Very Good At Being Bad' has a cascading chorus that diverts into a series of strange twists, before rippling riffs introduce 'Dragged Kicking & Screaming'. It promptly struts like a vampire on ecstasy before striking out with a cheeky nursery rhyme of a hook. 'Teen Angel' is not the glam tease you might expect from the title - it's more of a Fifties-inspired rockabilly romp inseminated by Rob Riot's evil guitars and the steady, libidinous throb of Vikki Spit's low-slung bass. Just like 'The Dumb Song' - equally comic-sinister, just as much fun - it has one of those untypical choruses that nevertheless stay with you long after the final chords have crashed to a halt.

The Dogs D'Amour styled title of 'The Life And Times Of The Suicide Kid' does indeed strike a different note, comparable to that band's own bottles-and-despair storytelling sleaze. Zion's tremulous, evil-Elvis vocals guide you down this troubled road, and just when you think you know where it's headed, Spit Like This again veer off into a totally unexpected cul-de-sac of broken down and built up metallic riffs. It sure keeps lazy reviewers on their toes!

'Oh No! Here We Go!' revisits the full throttle carnage of 'Zero To Sixty', hugging the corners, speeding down the straights and reminding you that this band are, above all else, a lot of fun. Coiled and rattling, 'Dead To Me Now' rounds the whole thing off with an infected injection of (im)pure punk sleaze.

And there you have it - a lovably oddball, tattooed B-movie of an album, one that'll reach glam kids, (proper) punk kids and lovers of all things retro and psychobilly. The music industry might be looking in the opposite direction, but frankly where would you rather be heading? Sitting in the waiting room or having some fun before you die? See you down the freakshow."

SCREAM MAGAZINE "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Review (April 2012)
"'Normalityville Horror is without a doubt the best Rock n Roll album of the year! Spit Like This as ever deliver the goods in the form of 10 rip-roaring head splitting heavy metal classics!'' Adam A. Park (Scream Magazine)

LITTLE RAT BASTARD "NORMALITYVILLE HORROR" Unmastered Album Promo Review (USA, December 2011)
"Spit Like This is definitely one of the more unique bands I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing. They’re a hodgepodge of sleaze and glam rock with a dash of B horror movie. Eccentric maybe a good way to describe Spit Like This, but they back up their oddity with catchy well crafted songs.

Spit Like This are unapologetic about putting their influences front and center. They’re all about archetypal punk rhythms, snarling vocals, and sleazy guitars. “Normalityville Horror” opening track kicks off the album in grand fashion blending heavy rock and 80's glam. The title track “Normalityville Horror” has an upbeat, energetic chorus that will no doubt have fans singing along to it. “Very good at Being Bad” opens with a growling guitar riff that leads into the dramatic, fanciful chorus. All 10 tracks on “Normalityville Horror” posses a certain individuality that mesh into a cohesive offering for fans.

Spit Like This are about as original as they come in today’s Hard Rock/Metal scene.”Normalityville Horror” definitely won’t be your typical listening experience. Metalheads everywhere should take a gamble on this one of a kind band and the soon to be released “Normalityville Horror”

Nuff Said…

[Note: Our review copy of 'Normalityville Horror' was a very early unmastered recording from back in the fall of 2011. We can only assume that when Spit Like This releases the album to the masses it will sound even better than what we were privileged enough to have heard]"

GET READY TO ROCK LIVE REVIEW (UK, October 2011)
"Next up was Spit Like This...A Surrey based four piece fronted by the inimitable Lord Zion. This is an act that could really go places.

The stage seemed too small for them. Their brand of noise is described by the (very hot) bass player Vikki Spit as Glam Punk Rock.

If you throw in a bit of Misfits, Rob Zombie, The Ramones and give it some energy throw in some horror kitsch and some great tattoos and you are heading in the right direction.

Lord Zion has a real presence and energy on stage and really captivates the crowd with his performance and musically they are very tight. They have a new album due for release soon called 'Normalityville Horror' You can check them out www.spitlikethis.com"

METAL GODS TV LIVE REVIEW (UK, September 2011)
"East London were then treated to an energy filled set from SPIT LIKE THIS, with some much enthusiasm and catchy tunes they won me over. Their appearance and style resembles 80's hair metal, regarded as a swear word by some, but with a performance of this calibre and energy if you missed these you missed out."

ACCESS ALL AREAS MUSIC LIVE REVIEW (UK, May 2011)
"London, 14th May - Some people have no shame. And in certain circles, this can only be a good thing.

Case in point, heavy metal glam-goth mob SPiT LiKE THiS. Having been a gobsmackingly underappreciated pillar of the UK rock scene for a fair few years to say the least, they lit up the Underworld, showcasing their new guitarist and new tracks to London, and both lived up to the band’s spectacular nature. Due to time constraints, they had to rush through their set, but with such a high-energy band, this proved to be no big problem. Vocalist Lord Zion provided a formidable stage presence, barely slowing down for a second and careering around the stage like a particularly offensive and talented five-year-old. Keeping pace easily were the band: Vikki Spit, Vile Gilez and new axeman Rob Riot all proved their worth, pounding in some hefty basslines, seismic drums and sizzling solos. All the chops of the Big 4, the attitude of Motörhead and the debauched glitter-stained fun of T Rex playing Queen covers in a strip club seemed to fight for a place on the stage as the band careened between the pristine and the puerile. The setlist comprised of tracks from their upcoming ‘Normalityville Horror’ release, and they seem to have received a fresh shot of metal, with the instruments holding a renewed clout behind the shining veneer of punky rock n roll. And yet to write off the band as one whose aim in life is to perforate your eardrums and to kick you while you’re haemorrhaging would be to miss half the story: they might consider doing all of the above, but on the way, they want to make sure you have fun and hear some damn good tunes. ‘Zero To Sixty’ featured some mindbending tempo/effects/riff wizardry, and the percussive maelstrom swagger of ‘Sick’ could only send lightning down the spine. All that, and Vikki and Zion form a stage chemistry that could only be compared to the great twosome of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy in their easy silliness and twisted humour. All I can say is in light of a phenomenal show, roll on the album and a headline tour!

The gauntlet was laid, and Tigertailz had to put on one hell of an act to avoid being upstaged by their support. Whether this is a reflection of my own personal bias or not I’m unsure, but of the two I would vouch for Spit Like This being by miles the better act, but that isn’t to say that the Welsh glam legends didn’t hold their own corner. Resplendent in the edited clothing of seasoned metalheads and spandex of a true glam warrior, touting some serious musicianship in the form of guitarist Jay Pepper and one-man apocalypse soundtrack Robin Guy on drums, they tore into a set of new tricks and old favourites, especially standards from their ‘Bezerk’ album, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. However, more so than earlier the venue’s PA seemed set to overdrive and so the shrill vocals got a bit lost in the proceedings, although this didn’t discourage them in the slightest, belting out antics and anthems like there’s no tomorrow. I felt the solo sections were a bit too self-congratulatory, and the stage banter dragged in places (the encore had to be cut to one song due to a curfew) however there’s no denying that when they kicked into fifth gear, boy did they deliver with songs like ‘I Can Fight Dirty Too’ holding as much snot and spark as they did upon their first performance.

All in all, I would say that Tigertailz aren’t the standard-bearers of days gone by, but in their refusal to lay down and grow suits and pensions and sensible shoes, they remain a beacon of the power of metal, and Spit Like This can carry the bright and shining torch, proving that po-faced posturing is not a necessary part of being a kick-ass metal act. Loud as fuck and sexy to boot with a wit sharp and quick as a razorblade whipcrack from your favourite dominatrix comedienne, they have come for your souls, and if there’s any justice left in this godforsaken music industry, you’ll hand them over."

PEREZHILTON.COM REVIEW (USA, October 2010)
Spit Like This - "Sweet Transvestite" off of We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)

SPiT LiKE THiS: This is crazy! We have been inundated with messages saying that our version of the Rocky Horror Show's "Sweet Transvestite" has been put up on one of the biggest gossip sites in the universe, PerezHilton.com. Took me a while to find it as it has been misrepresented as a leaked demo of John Stamos from the TV show Glee singing it! We've emailed Perez personally hoping that he might set the record straight but check out the link here - unmistakingly SLT! Here is what Perez Hilton - one of THE most influential people in Hollywood - says about it:

"Big mistake, FOX!

This sounds INCREDIBLE!

We mentioned before that John Stamos was Ryan Murphy's original choice to play Dr. Frank N. Furter in the upcoming The Rocky Horror Glee Show! The network vetoed the choice, but before they could, John recorded a demo of Sweet Transvestite.

And it just leaked! And we have it here for you! Yes!

Check out the video (above) to hear Uncle Jesse KILL the song!

Such a waste!"

FLASH MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (Italy, May 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
[read in Italian]

75/100

FRENCH-METAL.COM ALBUM REVIEW (France, May 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
[read in French]

16.5/20

THEROCKPIT.NET ALBUM REVIEW (Australia, April 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
"Imagine an alternate universe where Alice Cooper played Frank n Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show – this is the world of Spit Like This, soon to be entering the studio with uber production guru Chris Tsangarides to record their second full length album.

Full of high camp, it’s witty, smutty, unapologetically in your face and full of originality. At it’s best singer Lord Zion is like a Heavy Metal inspirational speaker – songs like ‘Trust Your Instincts’ encourage you to stand up for yourself, and foster self belief and individualism, (“You better not be telling me what I should do”) which are incredibly positive messages to disseminate to ‘the kids’.

Opener ‘Sex Drugs & Heavy Metal’ (“is all I need”) perfectly illustrates the sense of humour and fun on offer, and serve as the ideal example of how the band use bassist Vikki Spit’s backing and call-out vocals to the hilt.

Elsewhere there is goth madness with ‘Dead Girl Walking’, the electroclash Depeche Mode-doing-metal ‘Pussywhipped’, the cabaret-metal camp of ‘Top Of The World’ and a bonus cover of the Rocky Horror Show’s perennial favourite ‘Sweet Transvestite’, played deliciously to the hilt by Zion.

This isn’t for everyone – but if the idea of a heavy metal gothercise Rocky Horror Show has you drooling with antici…………………………. PATION, then you, like us, will find this album indispensible!

4/5*

ROCKPAGES.GR ALBUM REVIEW (Greece, Feb 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
"You might have read that we met the English band coincidentally... It was pure luck as it was a pure blessing... To tell you the truth I’m happy I met them. I’m talking about a band that is fresh, crazy as hell and authentic and I do wish they proceed as they have planned, although music industry is more of a maze nowadays... This Glam/Punk Rock band is a mad hybrid; they describe themselves as a cross between The Damned and Motley Crue, on other hand, Lord Zion’s vocals are so theatric, so ironic, the lyrics are so erodent, the motif is freely... well, judging on the titles... In your face! “Sex, drugs & Heavy Metal”, “Dead girl walking”, “Pussywhipped”, “Down on you”, “Sleaze sells... but who’s buying”! As you can appreciate, there are no sexual innuendos here, the band is simply spitting their word in our face, probably like this!

Punk is the base and the system supporting device and the boys and gal from London aim and shoot right between the legs, sorry I meant eyes. Punk alley style, sarcasm and self-sarcasm, tendency for a fistfight and some brawling and tons of power! I’ve seen them live on stage and I was shocked! Very alive! They surely admire Alice Cooper, they surely want to put a theatric show on, they surely want to make a difference...

Thirteen songs await thee, in order to scream and shout and laugh and act anyway you want! Plus, you get to meet a band which is getting ready to get on top of the world. Ain’t that the GREatest thing?" [view in EN] [view in GR]

TWIST MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (Sweden, Feb 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
"The fact is that 'We Will not Hurt You (But We Will not Go Away)' is a pretty great album. It's a bit dirty and in your face but in a really distanced and ironic way. With his very well articulate voice the vocalist Lord Zion escorts us forward through lyrics that just turns more and more absurd. Tracks like 'Dead Girl Walking', 'Pussywhipped' and really great 'Hunt You Down' makes me really want to see the band in concert. That would most likely be yet another dimension to be added to the music and make it even more likable."

BLEEDING4METAL.DE ALBUM REVIEW (Germany, Feb 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
8.5/10 [click to read review in German]

NOCTURNAL MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (UK, Issue 7, Feb 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
"Old school style glammy rockers Spit Like This have re-released their debut album on their new label with an extra track and a bonus video. Not enough to warrant a second copy perhaps but if you haven’t picked the album up yet then the Ultimate Edition makes this perfect timing.

The Spit Like This sound is a varied mix of influences fused into what is essentially big haired, hard drinking, tattooed, sex fuelled, hard rock with a huge sense of humour and a collective tongue that may have been stapled into the cheek. If that all sounds a bit cheesy to you then sure, they do walk a thin line over the chasm of becoming a cartoon, but they tear across that line with a devil may care attitude, a glint in the eye and a manic grin so contagious you cant help but love them.

But there’s more to it than that. Not least amongst the appeal is the authenticity of it all. At a time where every alternative band wants to talk about being a ‘voice for the kids’ and ‘knowing what it’s like to be different’ Spit Like This are the real deal. Music for teenage rebellion without going on about the fact that it is. Songs like Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal and tracks about individuality sit along side those about oral sex and selling your panties. SLT write about getting suited and booted and not caring what anyone thinks not because it’s ‘rock n roll’ but because, like all good bands, they write from life.

Better still they take a genre that’s a well trodden path and bring some new ideas to the party. Clearly they have been listening to more than just one type of music and they pull elements from across the rock spectrum into their sound. Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal wears its heart on its sleeve and gives you what you’d expect, squealing guitars, sing along choruses and all. Heart Thief has a bass that must have been designed with pogoing in mind as it’s sheer bounce, while Dead Girl Walking has The Cramps meeting Nick Cave in one of my favourite tracks of the album.

Pussywhipped is of a much slower pace but no less entertaining and pushes up the glam factor right to the long guitar outro. The extra track for the Ultimate Edition is live favourite Sweet Transvestite. As always what’s interesting about a cover is where the focus and emphasis is placed in the re-interpretation. On the record it’s not quite as fantastic as the awesome live version, but still thoroughly entertaining.

Obviously it’s these musical properties that are what’s really important but being fronted by what just might be the sexiest couple in rock cant do them any harm either.

Spit Like This are about sex and partying as much as they are about alienation and refusal to conform, but they’re having a lot of fun and not taking it too seriously so why should you? Grab the album and join the party. And if you’re not convinced? Well, they wont hurt you, but they wont go away."

ROCK TRIBUNE MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (Belgium, Feb 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
85/100

POWERPLAY MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (UK, Issue 117, Feb 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
"SPiT LiKE THiS are never going to win any awards for being original, but they may well win some for having attitude and being hugely entertaining. Yes, we've heard sleazy glam metal like this a million times before, but it doesn't stop it being fun. Plus, with SPiT LiKE THiS boasting their notorious tongue-in-cheek sense of humour at every turn, it's hard not to get swept away by their infectious enthusiasm for what they're doing. All of this helps you ignore that it's business as usual for the infamous act. Offering up essentially a British version of acts like Robin Black and Trashlight Vision, but louder and more raucous, SPiT LiKE THiS also bring to mind a dirtier version of Tigertailz, but fronted by Steve Strange of Dead Or Alive! Songs like "Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal", "Down On You" and "Trick Or Mistreat" are fun chunks of old school sleaze rock goodness...This is a fun glam album that sounds like a quickie in an alley - messy and fun! 5/6" [view]

POWERPLAY MAGAZINE HARD ROCK HELL III LIVE REVIEW (Issue 117, Feb 2010)
"Which left Spit Like This to close the festival and what a finale they provided! A combination of punk and glam, weird as this may sound, worked exceptionally well, and I can see them making a name for themselves in 2010." [view]

DANGERDOG.COM JANUARY 2010 (USA)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
"Somewhere between Rocky Horror Picture Show and Alice Cooper, punk rock and metal, parody and theatre of the absurd there lies the UK's Spit Like This, a glam band with a lot on its mind and the musical chops to express it. Already freaking people out in their native land, We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away) blends rock, punk, metal, and even psychobilly into a sonically entertaining amalgam sure to stupefy the most resolved listener. Songs like Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal or Young, Dumb and Full of Fun are overstatements of crass vulgarity and quirky hooks. Dirty-minded and decadent can only describe Down On You, Pussywhipped, and Sleaze Sells, But Who's Buying where SLT's crafty creativity shines over their dark hearts...We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away) is strange and sophomoric lyric, talented and tawdry musicianship, and exaggerated and entertaining theatre... Pompous, prurient, and vulgar, Spit Like This's We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away) is likely to entertain, intrigue, or simply disgust."

RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE HARD ROCK HELL III LIVE REVIEW, JANUARY 21st 2010 (Issue Feb 2010)
"Spit Like This brought proceedings to a climactic close. The single, ineligible male contingent were not left disappointed, with bassist Vikki looking every bit the rock fantasy, which explained the carpet."

ROCK PAGES HARD ROCK HELL III LIVE REVIEW, JANUARY 16th 2010
"...Yet we rather watch a band that will become a huge act in the near future, British Punk Rock Glammers, Spit Like This. They are really awesome! Ultimately hot bass guitarist Vikki Spit is fire on stage! It’s too late (or too early in the day), however the band is kicking, having frontman Lord Zion in amazing shape, closing the gates of Hard Rock Hell III. You must check out this band. It’s not coincidental that it’s the only band featured in all three “Hard Rock Hell” festivals!"

UBER ROCK HARD ROCK HELL III LIVE REVIEW, DECEMBER 10th 2009
"...before two of us get our shit together in order to watch Spit Like This close the event on the main stage...

...and fuck me, if they don't close it in hugely impressive style. Big stage, great sound, awesome light show - the stage, literally, was set for the performance of a lifetime from these guys and gal. Some new songs rub shoulders with the highlights of the SLT back catalogue and Zion owns the stage...well, part of it at least as Vikki Spit couldn't look cooler and the guys watching from her side of the stage lose the ability to blink. Their set is over way too quickly but couldn't really have gone any better. If there were any doubters in attendance then they surely would have been silenced. Awesome."

UBER ROCK NOVEMBER 2009
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR Music Group)
"Dare you open this Pandora's box of twisted, dark, glam, sleazy, theatrically punctuated rock? For the best results put the headphones on, sit back, crank it up to almost uncomfortable levels and open your mind to take it all in. You won't regret it.

'Turn up the level!!!!' snarls Lord Zion as he cracks the whip on set opener 'Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal' and that, as the song goes, is all I ever needed. A big fat rousing "fuck yeah" to that Mr Zion, sir. There's a dash of 70's glam rock, a little of that US glam and a splattering of sleaze as well for good measure on this album...and some 80's pop craft too. But don't be fooled - there is so much more to this album. It is dramatic and grande and why fucking not?

People will no doubt try and pigeon hole this as simply a glam album but there's a lot more going on than that; I've just heard a dash of Adam And The Ants being played with the spirit of Sigue Sigue Sputnik using the Pistols' amps. It's a right jolly mixed bag we have here folks - one minute I think that's a Marilyn Manson drum beat but then I hear a bitchin' riff on Cyndi Rott's axe bleed through my speakers, and that's something that someone like Manson just doesn't have. We have darkness and light, hell 'Dead Girl Walking' mixes The Cramps with this "noughties glam slam" and mighty fine it is too.

I had a tune that I couldn't stop humming for the past week and I couldn't for the life of me think what it was until it came rolling out of the speakers at me; Spit Like This had planted a glam bomb in my head, called it 'Pussywhipped' and cursed it with an electronic intro that twists into some mighty fine axe work once again from Herr Rott. Damn it, I'm not even sure I should be liking this....but I do.

There is a feeling of twisted theatre about this record and I'm sure Lord Zion intended to wear his influences on his sleeve.....that is if he could be bothered to wear any sleeves. This is a right bitch's brew spread over fourteen tracks and all wrapped up in a lavish package. Spit Like This are a band who are intent and focussed on delivering the real deal so honour that attitude people - don't go and download this, buy it! Go see one of the shows or badger your local HMV or independent shop to stock it. Music is still very much a tactile experience and this is a band that has worked damn hard to produce a product that needs to be seen from the poster and classy artwork. Spit Like This should be massive in 2010 and you can say you were there when they took off.

I took the liberty of getting the low down from Lord Zion on what the album's songs were about and he duly obliged. In a nutshell, we have songs about a rock 'n' roll call to arms, necrophilia, soiled knickers, oral sex....and that's just mentioning a few. I could have reproduced them here but I thought I'd let the listener guess which is which! This is a band that doesn't want to be the next Guns N' Roses or Motley Crue but the first Spit Like This! There are definitely bits and bobs of such rock monsters in this record but it does stand alone and is certainly original. Go check it out before you have to play catch up with the cool, in-the-know set"

UBER ROCK OCTOBER 2009
"So, with Uber Rock's man of the moment David Whistance stuck at his hotel due to a room mix up, it was with open arms that I sidled up to the stage to once again witness the UK's premier sleaze shock rock band namely SPiT LiKE THiS. Really, I mean what can I say that I haven't said before here about SPiT LiKE THiS, this band are always unpredictable, always play like their lives depend on it, and deliver a fine set of tunes that can be best summed up in the set's highlight (well for me anyway) the rambunctious 'Sex, Drugs And Heavy Metal' which also rather oddly heralded the arrival of said missing Uber reviewer"

NEMESIS TO GO MAY 2009
"Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away (Cargo)
There's nothing like starting as you mean to go on. Spit Like This open their album with a song called 'Sex, Drugs And Heavy Metal', which lets us know exactly what we're in for. The song is a glam-slam calling card dropped on the mat, a statement of intent that stakes out the band's territory in no uncertain fashion. And if you want to get territorial about it, I'd say the Kingdom Of Spit Like This lies somewhere between AC/DC's Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes by Hanoi Rocks - but they've probably got a reciprocal trade agreement with the People's Republic Of Punk Rock in there somewhere, too.

Mixing gutsy, unpretentious, glammed-up rock wiith a heathy dose of punk attitude and a very British sense of knockabout humour, Spit Like This certainly don't deal in introspection and sophistication. That stuff is for wimps. They're a loud, trashy, and unashamedly good-time bunch of rockers. They're sussed enough to keep it simple and direct, and as a result We Won't hurt You But We Won't Go Away is like being slapped upside the head with thirteen hefty glam-hammers.

The band drop a dollop of pop suss into the brew, too - check out the mighty neo-Glitter band riff 'n' wallop of 'Heart Theif', and the Suzy Quatro handclaps of 'Trust Your Instincts'. Spit Like This could easily have been chart stars in the glamtastic seventies. You can imagine them mixing it with the likes of Wizzard and The Sweet on Top Of The Pops, matching 'em riff for riff. Mind you, dear old Top Of The Pops would've probably censored 'Down On You', which challenges Frank Zappa in the Rude Rock Song stakes. Meanwhile, 'Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying?' is one of those boisterous Friday-night-and-I-just-got-paid anthems that'll have 'em moshing when it comes on the jukebox down the Crobar. It's all instant classic stuff, and if there's not much in the way of innovation or self-consciously furrowed-brow boundary pushing here - well, that's missing the point. The Spit Like This agenda is simple: they're here to get rocked. Rock, as I believe the saying has it, On."

GLiTZiNE APRiL 2009
"Control is the last thing you'd expect from SPiT LiKE THiS, and true to form Lord Zion and crew finished the live element of 'The Boys Night Out' with an elegantly wasted set of debauchery and sin soaked tunes. By the time "Sleaze Sells" has converted the amassed throng into a singing arena rock audience done on a budget, the cover of Rocky Horrors "Sweet Transvestite" had the platform heeled lovelies in attendance moving like "Herman Munster" in a 100 meter dash. Pedigree sleaze, and a perfect curtain call to proceedings when Lord Zion confessed that he once had a Birthday cake made in the cover of the Tailz "Beserk". Cue, certain audience members to look skywards to try and work out just how old that made the new lord of Sex Drugs and Heavy Metal…. Classic!!!"

WALL OF SOUND FEBRUARY 2009
"Though Spit Like This have been gigging and recording for years, this is the band's first true studio album, and it's a damn fine one. If you're sick of bands who have 'a sound' and you're ready to rediscover what rock'n'roll is really all about, there could be no finer place to start. The variety on show here is just as dazzling as the CD itself. Setting out their stall with straightforward opener 'Sex Drugs & Heavy Metal', the band show a hint of what's to come with the glam rock inspired 'Heart Thief', where there's more of their character on show. From then on, it's a rollercoaster ride all the way, as Spit Like This prove that they're not afraid to take you anywhere. From the eerie soundscape of 'Dead Girl Walking', through the menace and dark introspection of 'Act of God' and the epic musicality of 'Pussywhipped', to the rock'n'roll masterclass of 'Coming After You' and the irresistible madness of 'Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying?', this is an album full of surprises. To describe it as an over-all experience, it's best to imagine it as a visit to New Orleans during Mardi Gras - imagine good times with your buddies, loud music, drunken debauchery, an edge of danger, a side-order of sleaze, and a healthy dose of the macabre. This is music as it ought to be."

SOUNDSHOCK JANUARY 2009
"A band who have built up a strong cult following and have been awarded the title of the UK’s trashiest band continue the glam rock witnessed in the early hours and put in a performance that many will remember as one of the best of the weekend." Hard Rock Hell II performance www.soundshock.net

GLiTZiNE EZiNE JANUARY 2009
"Admiration. That's a bold opening word for the review of a debut album from a young British band, but admire Spit Like This I do. I had been impressed from afar by their shameless self-promotion and their hard worth ethic of striving to do everything bigger and better than their contemporaries. I couldn't even visit the winter Memorabilia show at Birmingham's NEC to meet my favourite Z-list actors without seeing SLT's Lord Zion and Vikki Spit selling shirts and handing out "Kill A Chav" stickers. At last month's Hard Rock Hell 2 festival, I continued to be blown away as the band seemingly spent the entire evening before their (horribly early) set on the weekend's second day covering the prison complex...umm...I mean holiday camp with scores of promo posters and putting a flyer in almost every sweaty hand. But, of course, it worked a fuckin' treat as, after what seemed like mere minutes after retiring to their luxury apartments, hundreds of dishevelled rock fans turned up to see Spit Like This open the day's proceedings on the stroke of midday. Their brand of dark, camp entertainment turned the lunch hour into the witching hour and they closed their set as haunted heroes and heroine.

I was impressed enough to shell out for the album 'We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away)' - that's right, no fancy promo discs for this righteous reviewer! In all honesty, I was impressed before I even got to put the disc in the ol' death deck. The cover art and booklet are simply stunning and pretty much everything you look for with any release. Again, Spit Like This are showing others how to do it. Yes, the awesome cover painting does make it look like the end of a penis is poking out of Vikki's hot pants but, c'mon, that's how rock 'n' roll myths are made, right?!

The album itself is a devil's dozen of amazingly well-produced and freakishly fun dark terror tunes that are equal parts ambitious, self-indulgent and ass-kickingly awesome. Gloriously titled opener 'Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal' is infected with superb backing vocals that happily haunt the entire record, a record that careens from vile vaudeville to killer cabaret. Murder ballad 'Dead Girl Walking' bleeds into serial killer tune 'Hunt You Down' with its War Machine-style riff. 'Pussywhipped' opens with unlikely yet excellent hints of Sigue Sigue Sputnik with its 80's sounding synth, before turning into a classic rock tune as soon as the full moon appears. 'Coming After You', an 80's metal throwback, is the nearest you'll get to a whiff of filler but, hey, we've all got our upside down crosses to bear. 'Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying?' is great and the album ends in style with 'Trick Or Mistreat'.

You just know that Spit Like This are gonna tour the ass off this record. They will spread their word to thousands and they are courageously confident enough to pull it off. We need bands like this. We need people who will keep going until they get what they want. Spit Like This are deadly serious about their band without taking themselves too seriously - does that make sense? There is a dark humour to the band and their work - theirs is a tongue in the cheek of anyone who will listen. There is no point in being clever if you have bad judgement - Spit Like This appear to be the former while being severely devoid of the latter. On the strength of what I have seen and heard recently, the Spit Like This story will be a successful, albeit darkly twisted, one."

TOP ROCK RADiO, NOVEMBER 2008
"'We Wont Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away)' has to be the release of the year, an album that will take you on a roller coaster ride through 13 amazing tracks, The story unfolds as each track plays taking the listener on a journey through catchy rock that you will be singing along to, picking up glam and punk themes and even a "big band" jazz feel along the way. The true stadium tracks are guaranteed and your experience will even witness the darker gothic side of a band that demand attention and you will be subservient. This is a must have CD for any collection - The Beerman gives it 10/10"

ORGAN MAGAZiNE, FEB 2008
"Spit Like This are a defiantly healthy shock rock throw back. Four of them, looking good and sounding even better. Classic punked-up no messing shock-rocking glam metal stomp – think Madam X, early Crue, Wolfsbane, Misfits, Alice Cooper, early days of Poison, Twisted Sister (before things got all MTV slick), think all that and stick in a great big blender with some London X factor, shake it all up, stir it just a little and throw it all right back up along with all the fake stage blood and the soiled tampon damage. Painted leather, big black hair, even bigger attitude - smoke machines, riffs, fluorescence colour, Ant-beats, lurid skulls, theatrics and everything as over the top as it could possibly be – no one does it quite like Spit Like This! Horror glam punk rock is what they call it and on stage is where it all comes to larger than life reality. This is not twee indie music for the faint hearted! Lord Zion up front demanding attention, Vikki Spit driving things with her meaty bass lines, Cyndi Rott with the punk-metal riffs and Vile Gilez banging the beat. – the four of them are just one big brash shock-metal riot-ball rolling right on at you and assaulting all your senses at once... They roar through their short set (this is a club more than a regular full-on gig), that slice through an outrageous helping of Sweet Transvestite Rocky Horror Picture Show - riffs fly, hair flies, audience participation is demanded , strobes erupt, rock is shocked and once again Spit Like This more than live up to their growing word-of-mouth live reputation... See ‘em if you dare."

"Goth-glam shock rock band Spit Like This made me nostalgic for my old Sounds days. Back then if I’d seen a band this enjoyably outrageous they’d have been reviewed within the week and on the cover in a month or too. Happy days…"
Garry Bushell

"SPiT LiKE THiS are riding the crest of a lovejuice wave... they add a blistering contemprary spin to the classic sleaze rock formula!" BiZARRE MAGAZiNE

“’What are you listening to tonight?’, ‘SPiT LiKE THiS’“
The 2 Goth Kidz on Coronation Street

SUGARBUZZ MAGAZiNE, JUNE 2007
"May 23 at London Underworld proved to be another one of those perfect rock nights where a visiting classic U.S. band calls on fresh local talent to help recruit a new generation of fans. Tonight Spit Like This and Gypsy Pistoleros were supporting LA Guns.

Spit Like This turned out to be a jaw-droppingly engaging act, delivering a delicious mix of punk, goth and glam, their multi-layered rock-noire combining vaguely surrealistic Art House finesse with a banging knack for catchy rock songwriting. The band’s poise, sense of humour, and the way they manage to revamp the traditional stylistic fetishes, are all perfectly united to match the outward expression to their inner essence. In this sense Spit Like This are totally in a league of their own, dosing diverse influences in just the right measures to create one distinctive, unique whole.

Vikki Spit’s seductive look and the way she puts an erotic edge to the band’s style is what you notice first in Spit Like This, as well as the way this image resonates with the music. Singer Lord Zion sustains this band’s claim to attention on another front, working his stage moves without a trace of inhibition, doing everything he finds necessary to turn the band’s show into a cleverly constructed dramatic performance.

The standout “Obscene (But Not Heard)” was probably the best number of the set with frantic leads from vocal dynamo Zion, shaded by cool backing vox courtesy of Vikki. The guitar solo spread over a sequence of just a few chords, but still hit on an emotional core beyond the song’s simple punk harmony. This song was an almost tangible hit, vibrant, catchy and very fun to get into.

The band’s punk inclinations later turned out to be the backbone of almost all of the songs that they played that evening. “Sweet Transvestite” was another punchy highlight boasting a snappy hook, the rhythm section nailing the punk groove perfectly, with big, unremitting muscle. The bass on all of the band’s songs always stands up for itself, sounding round and contained, Vikki making sure that the notes don’t swell too much, while drummer Vile Giles guides the band with sharp, confident precision.

Song after song Spit Like This invented new ways to intrigue the audience, staying true to the trademark vigorous punk impulse at the heart of their music. The coolest thing about this band though is probably the way they know how to get rid of cliché by skilfully transforming and layering different styles, creating one seamlessly unique whole. The degree of affirmation and denial of each music genre that goes into their sound varies from song to song, and this is what keeps it genuinely exciting"

ONLiNE REViEW, APRiL 2007
"21/4/07 Spit Like This, enchanted a somewhat assorted audience at Kentish Town's notorious underground music haunt, the Bull and Gate. Armed and ready with their dynamic set of Glam / Punk / Shock Rock tunes, SLT's Rock ‘n’ Roll anthems put the crowd’s (hopefully) well oiled dancing shoes, and the hairspray on those ever enthusiastic glam kids to the ultimate test. Spit like this proved they have the whole thing going on. From green light to ‘Sweet Transvestite’, they unquestionably have it all, and possibly the only band that could successfully pull off a tasteful Rocky Horror cover. “Who Needs You” and “Sex, Drugz, n Heavy Metal” were just two of the monumental melodies that left the party people wanting more. An all too rare visit to LDN undeniably paid off, made clear by shouts, screams and wholehearted waves of appreciation .. ‘Who Needs You?’ rule breakers, mischief makers and just about anyone up for some damn good music!"

DUKESTER PROMOTiONS, APRiL 2007
"SPiT LiKE THiS - Rock n' roll - Bull & Gate, Kentish Town 21/4/07
This lot just get filthier and filthier. Slimmed down to a four piece with a new guitarist on the form of the stunning Cyndi Rott, SLT are now a leaner, meaner, fighting machiner (?) and all the better for it. Unlike 99.9% of the underground bands you see, SLT don't just put on a gig, they put on a SHOW. So all the lights, the props, the smoke, the blood, the sweat, would all mean nothing if the music didn't back it. But it does, being the all important highlight with their rock n' roll showing it ain't dead yet as it is "Dragged Kicking And Screaming" back into the lime light with anthems like "Not Dead Yet" and The Rocky Horror Show's "Sweet Transvestite" (surely this lot being the rock n' roll embodiment of that). Everyone watched, people danced, they themselves were swinging all over the place, people had a good time, as I think did they. I know I did!" - gig review myspace.com/dukesterpromotions

DEEP CUT HOUR RADIO, JUNE 2006
"But LUCKY for us we walked in just as support group "SPIT LIKE THIS" started. and let me tell you THEY ROCKED! a group of 4, oozing gothic sex appeal, 3 guys all tall, skinny fuckerz, rockin long back hair and tight trousers. lord zion vocals, stevie lee on guitar and vile gilez on drums, and the stunningly georgous vikki spit on bass bearly wearing a tight fettish nurses dress! WOW!! lord zion took the croud by storm dominating the stage with his prancing around, and for me the highlight was his STUNNING cover of "sweet transvestite" from the rocky horror picture show. (this dude IS frank n furter!)" gig review from isle of wight, 23rd june 2006

INSOMNiA, ISSUE 2, MAY 2006
Featuring 21 tracks and lasting 77 minutes, SCARY TALES: The Collection is the ultimate in sleaze rock. The CD pretty much consists of everything that this excellent band has recorded so far with previous Ep's and also has some brand new tracks on there for your audio pleasure. SPiT LiKE THiS aren't afraid to tell it how it is and pull no punches with this trashy and sleazy classic of an album. The album simply oozes sex and sleaze. This is ultimate glam and sleaze rock and it's very, very best. On this evidence, SLT are well on their way to becoming the new Cramps.

BUBBLEGUM SLUT, ISSUE 22, MAY 2006
Since 2001 SPiT LiKE THiS have been giving the world a lesson in doing it your own way. An entrepreneurial streak selling panties (pre-worn) and filthy T-Shirts (washed, actually), a unique sleaze-shock rock sales pitch which has attracted armies of teen fans (or SLuTz) and attention grabbing antics ranging from playing with blow-up dolls and fake blood onstage to offering a funeral service for ailing celebrities have seen one of Britain's hardest working acts gets from early demos to this first full length release.

Rather than being a debut album proper, "Scary Tales" collects together those demos (remastered and with added bonus material) and tells the story so far with a view to funding the first album proper. Over it's whopping 21 tracks "Scary Tales" takes you on a journey from still-finding-their-feet early recordings as a duo to the thrashy, screamy, altogether more rock "Not Dead Yet" (from "Anarchy For Two") and glam rocker "Obscene (But Not Heard)" which intriduced the full band line-up. From there we come right up to date and to the "Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying?" EP which spawned live favourites such as the Rocky Horror-esque "Trick Or Mistreat" and "Dragged Kicking and Screaming".

So, go on, pick up a copy so we can all get an earful of what they're capable of in a big budget studio!

ALBUM OF THE MONTH - FMH

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Since their inception many a sexed moon ago, Spit Like This have been all about Playboy love, sex tapes, cigar cuttting, lipstick smearing, pirate styling sleaze rock and making their homemade sound breach more than the streets of London. Well, with recent EP Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying did just that. Amazon was spitting like this, HMV online was too and many an online rock chart carried the bands name loud and proud. So while the boys and girls make the follow up, they've decided to treat their 'slutz' with a career spanning best of. Scary Tales: The Collection has arrived and has even been banned by Asda. Rock and fucking roll.

The CD itself follows all five previous EPs and even packs on a couple of extra shots for the purists. Asshole (Parts I & II) is a yodelling sex cry which eventually pumps into a fast as fuck punk swagger. Hooked On You is Eurovision meets Ron Jeremy; synth heavy and melody driven with the bands usual stamp of Adam Ant and Johnny Rotten shot through an electro-disco cannon. Trust Your Instincts (2003 and 2005 versions) still carries the now immortal SLT line "Selling used panties on eBay sure is a way to make your living, but its might not be something you should tell your dad about..." with the '05 version getting more vote thanks to its new shiny speed and packaging.

And thats just it with Spit Like This. They are a band of many beasts. Punk, metal, glam, little bit pop, full on theatre and as the eras roll by, its easier to see the amount of invention that comes out of the bands timeline. Not Dead Yet screams like a punk monster on heroin with its endless barrel roll guitar lines, piercing drum beats and punching vocals. Rebel Lover has always been a favourite of mine and as the hook injected track kicks off the second half of this collection. And it is the stock on the Dragged Kicking And Screaming EP that marks the best for me, it was about the time I started listening to these renegade crew. As Obscene (But Not Heard) and Who Needs You (I Don't) rings through the speakers, its easy for this reviewer to spark into a nostalgic sing-a-long. Hahaha..."If I wanted a date with your mum then don't you think I'd have asked her".

Then onto modern day with Rocky Horror punk tune Trick Or Mistreat, chav basher Gay Man and Playboy playground rhyme Dragged And Kicking In Screaming. The end is one for the fans, Down On You sounds like it's picked straight from the score of a band musical. Maybe West Spit Story, Grease (-y sex) or The Loin King (ok thats awful I know). Someday is the bands original swansong anthem, spat (no pun intended) lyrics on a pulsing bed of instrument noise as the album closes with a couple of live tracks.

Well, I don't know when the next SLT product is going to infiltrate shops. I don't know if the band knows but Scary Tales: The Collection is the perfect intermission

POWERPLAY Magazine April 2006

KALEiDOSCOPE MAGAZiNE
“The latest release from 'The UK's Trashiest Band' SPiT LiKE THiS - which actually went to #1 on the Amazon singles chart on pre-orders alone! The title track 'Trick Or Mistreat' is a kind of camp Rocky Horror Hallowe'en song, whilst 'Trust Your Instincts' documents the SLT attitude to life, from selling used panties on eBay to Lord Zion offering instructions on how to eat, live and sleep. The 4th song 'Gay Man' is an Anti-Chav Anthem that you all owe it to yourselves to own! A twisted Glammy Rock'n'Roll mix of the NY Dolls, Lords of the New Church and The Cramps. Lord Zion and Vikki Spit are well on the way to becoming the new Lux and Ivy!"

KALEiDOSCOPE MAGAZiNE ISSUE 20 WiNTER 2005/6

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“Lets get the bands name out there!” scream management companies across the world, “all we need is promotion” and “let’s get you guys on the map”. All very clichéd but ultimately true, and nothing sells like having a band of renegade rock ‘n’ rollers willing to shock rock the world into submission. Enter stage right, Spit Like This and their first nationally distributed EP ‘Sleaze Sells…But Who’s Buying?’

‘Trick Or Mistreat’ opens the album in a full burlesque theatre manner. Its Rocky Horror Picture Show meets glam rock as frontman Lord Zion takes the tune through chorus and verse with a perverse campness that is still filled with enough testosterone to probably make the boys and the girls swoon. An opening highlight indeed as the CD starts with the start-stop drums of ‘Trust Your Instincts’.

Opening on the lyric ‘Selling your used panties on Ebay may not be the best way to make a living…’ demonstrates the type of band we are ultimately dealing with here. In terms of song, it doesn’t stand up to the desire of the opener but holds enough power to keep the SLT party rolling along nicely.

‘Dragged Kicking And Screaming’ starts on almost childlike mimic tune as Zion fanfares the chorus. Over killer drums and a nice bit of guitar work the tune leads us into an old rock ‘n’ roll beat, a la the 1960s, which just adds to the eclectic influences on the EP. Closer ‘Gay Man’ is a joint highlight as it hails itself as one of the first anti-chav songs. Snarling instruments and biting vocals mixing anger with groove and melody. Another staple Spit Like This number.

Four songs over and its time to put the ‘Sleaze Sells…’ EP to bed. A first mainstream effort for a band who have the balls to take the scene by the scruff of his neck and kick it into a world where camp can be king and all the rock stars still get to go home and screw whatever and whoever they like. Ok, it isn’t Motley Crue, it isn’t Led Zeppelin but it is sleazy sexy rock. One thing is true, if this band gets their way then soon the rock market will be talking like this, walking like this, loving like this, fucking like this and ultimately spitting like this as well.

POWERPLAY Magazine issue # 70 November 2005

"SINGLE OF THE WEEK
SPIT LIKE THIS – Sleaze Sells….But Who’s Buying? (But) - Ah yes, back on track and wired and weird and sleazed up, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show going all the way and then some more, wear what they tell you and do it now. Their first ‘proper’ single, they already have a massive following and a million ‘offensive’ t-shirts out there – the last demo hinted at compromise, none of that here, they’ve seen the error of their ways. Think Adam Ant, The Godamn Whores, T-Rex, Motley Crue, early Twisted Sister (when they were still a punked up shock rock band right back at the start). PVC nurses uniforms, boys in high heels like new york dolls, think sleaze and porn and wholesome things like that – total trash rock, ridiculously shaped guitars, raw raw operatic rocky horror trash rock - chav baiting, fetish strutting, over the top sleaze….. the kind of band that your parents worry about, a band to throw your underwear at - ban this filth now… organart.com (issue 118, may 12th '05)

"SPiT LiKE THiS - Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying? - Lord Zion and his 5 pronged attack of muscians release an EP that FINALLY truly displays the attitude of SPiT LiKE THiS. On this CD you get glammy, sleazy, and downright dirty music that makes The Darkness look like small timers. Lord Zion's vocals soar and remind you of happier days when Axl Rose wrote such masterpieces as "Rocket Queen". On this new CD you get to hear the drumming sourcery of Vile Gilez along with the pure shredding abilty of the resident ladies man, Stevie Lee. This isn't deep thoughtful metal, this is in-your-face, we-like-sex-and-booze-and-how-do-you-like-that rock reminscent of bands such as G'N'R but like nothing you've ever heard. Tracks of note are "Trick Or Mistreat" and my personal favorite, "Trust Your Instincts". If
you have a pace maker, don't buy this CD." vince wylde, usa rock dj

"'No one makes music like we do anymore!' enthuses SLT singer Lord Zion. And as much as that may seem like a bold brash statement, it's also very true! This four track EP is a unique and radio friendly debut that sees songs coated in safe sex, drugs and old school rock and roll. This is as close to the latter as a radio listener will get to hear before the 9pm watershed. Stand out track 'Trick or Mistreat' is a very Rocky Horroresque number which caputres all the essence of a cheesy sexual parody. All laced, feather boa and leather fuelled with overly contagious sing along choruses. You must also see the accompanying video to believe just how wickedly captive it is! Also listed on the EP is Anti-Chav song 'Gay Man' which is a live favourite among their army of loyal SLuTz. So, in answer to the question ...Who's Buying? I'm Sold!! SLT are a band who would get into bed with everybody and anybody, with one goal, to affect and inject every human being on the planet with some outrageous sexually charged fun!!" devolution magazine (issue six, august 2005) "Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying?" CD

"The latest EP from the rock'n'roll glamour punks SPiT LiKE THiS is a 3 track offering oozing New York Dolls attitude and sleaze, with very catchy songs that lodge in the head and make you wanna get up and dance till you drop. Embodying the spirit of Jack Daniels rock'n'roll approach like no other band since the Dogs D'Amour, and with a take no prisoners attitude, this pisses all over the atrocious pseudo-punk bands pedalled out by the major labels! A hardcore version of Rachel Stamp with some Lords Of The New Church mixed in, this is a must for all glam-goths and fans of great sleazy rock" - kaleidoscope magazine, issue 18 winter 2004/2005 "Dragged Kicking & Screaming" EP

"Opening tonight's gig, SPiT LiKE THiS weren't the hardcore punk band that some might have expected...instead we got a glammy cross that was 30% Guns n' Roses, 60% New York Dolls and 110% glorious attitude! Songs littered with expletives and societal put downs, they put on a great show and were fun to watch - unless you were one of the 'lucky ones' who got showered when the guitarist (called Wank Sinatra apparently) spat fake blood over the audience... The lead singer - Lord Zion to you scurvy ratz - strutted about with all the r'n'r swagger of Jagger, Johanson, and Steve Tyler, whilst most of the blokes in the audience went on about some female bassist called Vikki Spit (who I couldn't see cos they all stood in my way...) All in all this was a bloody good gig from a band that embody the rock'n'roll lifestyle and will happily annihilate all posers, pretenders, and townies - see their website www.spitlikethis.com for more info and great merchandise!" - kaleidoscope magazine, issue 18 winter 2004/2005 The Damned/SPiT LiKE THiS, Union Bar, Maidstone, Kent gig

"Wow! I was totally into this, only to find it was just 3 songs.

Spit Like This are one helluva band that slams sleaze down your throat over and over again. The only way I can describe the band, is take Gemini Five and replace the vocalist with Michael Sweet, with that said, meet Spit Like This.

This is only a 3 song EP, but every song is a winner... 'Rebel Lover', the very Beautiful Creature vibed 'Obscene (But Not Heard)', and the keyboard enthused 'Who Needs You', with a chorus that a guy can sing to his girlfriend who is never satisfied and is always on a constant bitch-mode! Ha Ha! Spit Like This is an excellent band with all the sleaze you could ever want. Check them out!

Spit Like This "Dragged Kicking & Screaming", 10 out of 10 stars. Sleaze down your throat" - glitzine, february 2005

"I’m not sure why UK flash rock culture-vulture enclave Spit Like This don’t release whole albums, instead of singles and EPs all the time, but really, that’s none of my business. It’s probably all part of some top-secret Sigue Sigue Superplan. But this 3 songer LOOKS enough like a stand alone LP that I’m just going to pretend it is. First thing that’s different this time around is that the Spit Like This are no longer a dastardly duo – founding freaks Lord Zion and Vikki Spit are now joined by a trio of like-named (Wank Sinatra, Vile Gilez, Stevie Lee) cyber warriors in glow in the dark smoking jackets and Apache warpaint. Says here they play stuff too, but since Zion has been known to conduct cyborg symphonies by himself in his bedroom, that could be a ruse. Anyway, the 5 man glam-gang offer up three tracks of gooey glitter rock here, brash and brassy and catchier than the crosstown bus at quitting time. Soundwise, divide Desolation Boulevard era Sweet with “Electric Barbarella” era Duran Duran, multiply by Doctor and the Medics, toss in a liberal dose of that fairy dust that strippers wear, and you’ve nailed the b-movie disco massacre scene soundtrack that is Spit Like This. “Rebel Lover” is the most neon number on deck here, but all three will have you turning Japanese in no time." - sleazegrinder.com, november '04, "dragged kicking & screaming"

Slutty Music for Slutty People. Interested yet? Spit Like This are a sleazy, dirty, trashy band who will grab you by your balls until you pass out. This CD is a way of life. The songs are explosive and impulsive and extremely infectious. They're a DIY band who have put their hearts, souls and fists (no doubt) into this to make it the punchy little number it's become. It would seem that SLT are set to break even with this cd and lead their army of SLuTz into a whole new freaky world of rock 'n' roll. As they've said themselves, 'We created this little universe for our own amusement, this is our playground where we make the rulez! Wanna Play?'" - devolution magazine, issue 3, october '04, "dragged kicking & screaming"

"Normally I don’t care too much for biographies as they contain loads of over-the-top references, big marketing-related one-liners, plain idiot name-dropping and stupid crap in general. The irrelevant nonsense I have to read, you wouldn’t believe.

But, I guess you could see this one coming from a mile away, these of-the-chart wacko Brits, are one of the exceptions to the rule. The story of their conception, the Big Bang as it were, is too hilarious to keep from you.

Behind door number one we have the über-pervert Lord Zion, who had a leather-and-lace infested vision and wanted to waste no time to fulfill his fantasies and share it with his unsuspecting audience. He sounds like a guy I could become friends with.

Next up, enter Vikki Spit, an oversexed bass playing vixen, and a hellish deal was made. She sounds like a girl I …hmmm…never mind. The first thing they did to raise some money was taking advantage of some poor twisted guys (and girls) by selling Vikki’s used panties through E-Bay. You can imagine that in no time lots of money was rolling in, so step two of their plan was now in order: start a website, call it “Smell Your Mum” & sell offensive T-shirts & gadgets. That would certainly do the trick they thought & right they were: more money was gathered. By now they had enough dough to release their trash totally independent on CD and one of these little darlings is currently caressing my hearing.

Look, even if half of the above is true, it still is rock ‘n’ roll to the bone. So what do they sound like, you ask me? Well, kinda like you would expect them to sound: trashy, way over the top, hardcore sleaze to the max. They sport more tattoos than half the population of the American Indian Reservations and don’t make complete asses of themselves handling their instruments. All the songs have a simple don’t-bore-us-get-to-the-chorus setup and that’s really all it takes to get the desired effect: to have you start singing obscenities all through the day, and get away with it. They have my respect, bands like this make rock the colorful way of life it is today. A live size poster of Mrs. Spit can come my way now, thank you very much..." - rockreport.be, "dragged kicking & screaming", october '04

"I think you guys had the title before we ever had the contest. It was unfair to the other bands!...Rock Like Fuck, Acey" - acey slade (murderdolls / trashlight vision) on us winning the TRASHiEST BAND IN THE UK title, october '04

"The Spit Slutz (has to be with a Z) are back for more – first ‘proper’ single and another attack from day-glo fetish fuelled hearse driving glam gang of boyz and girl in rubber nurses outfit. Trashy slutty glammy metal - all tattoos, collars and black lipstick…. Your mum warned you about bands like this... you need to be curious and you need to go take a bite, Spit Like This do things their own way and their way is good..." - organart issue 92, "dragged kicking & screaming", october '04

"A full on balls out no bullshit snotty snarling punk attitude sadistic masochistic love machine sex beast of a rock n' roll band. The band make music look & sound dangerous & rebellious again living by their own rules and lifestyle and this, their third CD, is the aural personification of that blood dripping spit strewn image. Rock N' Roll doesn't sound like this almost EVER anymore, and seldom less do it this well. Rock N' Roll on. Well recorded, well captured for nonstop playback. Not only this, it's also ORIGINAL with choruses and verse split in each song so it's unpredictable too. Oh yes that's something that's been missing for oh so long. You NEED to witness this band just once...

* voted The TRASHiEST BAND IN THE UK by Acey Slade's Trash Light Vision competition (Murderdolls member)." - the dukester, october '04

"Spit like this“ is a new Sleaze Band from England, and they really kickz ass. The EP called “Dragged Kicking & Screaming” and is a great cup of Sleaze n Roll music with glam and punk influence. “Rebel Lover” is the opener and this track have a really special chorus, I think when I get drunk,and listening this song: I bang my head to the dead. My Fave of this 3 track EP is the song “Obscene” a real Killer who rockz the hell out of everyone. Take a hip hop dude, chain him and give em a loud taste of this song, i believe his head exploded – this song is so cool, i became to sell my grandmother for this phantastic track. We come to the last song “Who needs you” and i like the guitar work and the Voize of “Lord Zion” the real Grandmaster and Godfather of the Spit like universe. The band gimmick is great, sex drugs and rock n roll and least they have a beautiful bass guitar girl “Fetish Queen Vikki Spit” Hell shez too hot to handle. All right, this band really kicks ass, I hope to listening a full record soon - i think the have a great future. My last words: Buy thiz EP when you are a real Sleaze Rocker" - sleaze-metal.com, switzerland, sept '04

"Absolutely one of the most outrageously sexy and blatantly RnR bands out there. Not only are they entirely self financed by their quite brilliant T-shirt sales site SmellYourMum and eBay sales of Vikki's used panties but Lord Zion (as yon scary vocalist likes to be known) is renowned for his pyromaniac tendencies, SPiT LiKE THiS custom Hearse not to mention his penchant for writing the kind of songs that leaves you wondering what the fuck just happened." - fivemileshigh.com, uk, sept '04 - more cumming soon!

"Spit Like This are, simply, great. They are the 100% DIY band, doing everything themselves, from – according to them – selling soiled underwear to finance themselves, to their clothes (their collection of T-shirts is hilarious) and stage props. They are what Coldplay (just picked up one at random) are not: glamorous, beautiful (hey, look at Vikki, bass player and fetish queen, who has got a phwoar factor equal to a punk Betty Boop), they have a sense of humour, they hate garage, ghetto rap whatever (special mention for that one as well)… oh, and they do know how to play their instruments. Singer Lord Zion is very charismatic, looking the part (long hair, make-up and tight trousers). They are cock rock meets punk meets classic rock meets whatever you want to see in it… I would have thought them louder, though. I don’t think that the venue was doing them any favours, and I am pretty sure that good equipment would enable them to reach their full potential." - magicbox, france

"So what do you say about this band, to start with they definitely are very very rock n roll and they add to their rock n roll style with Lord Zion had flags on tied round his microphone stand, Stevie wearing a Slash style hat, Wank Sinatra was wearing leather trouser, t-shirts and headband while Vikki was wearing a see through pink dress with black underwear and Vile remained topless throughout the set. Many have tried to be glam rock but I don’t think anyone I have seen had been able to achieve it as well as Spit Like This. Bringing along their Street Slutz, who stood at the front of the crowd singing along to every song added to a great set that kicked off the evening. Sure they were rock n roll but they are different, shocking and more importantly they are very good." - rockbeast.com

"SPIT LIKE THIS were quite possibly the most unbelievable band we've ever seen here at the Tek. Starting with the music this is rock n' roll. Good ol' glam, and rock n' roll n' rock n' roll n' rock n' roll n' rock n' roll n' rock. That's it: after years of pretenders trying to capture the raucous sounds of old school rock but coming away sounding empty, this band had it all. But what struck you was the sheer effort this band make with EVERYTHING: in appearance there was balloons, coffins, smoke, bubbles, all their tatts on display and dressed up, while playing the most fun rock you'll hear for a long time. And at the front was a REAL frontman dancing wide-eyed throughout looking about shaking his cloth covered mike stand between playing his guitar. This band had three guitarists which is rare and gave a blunting dirt attack while as said one was the singer and the other played keyboards adding so much. The bassist (herself who received a lot of attention) provided brilliant backing vocal as well while the drummer kept throwing surprises using his whole kit its hard to describe the experience of this band. But at the end of the day its rock n' roll, and for a split second, you wonder if they're one of the best in the world. No one does it like this anymore, they deserve to go far. Rocking" - Alan "Dukester" Hillsde www.dukester.uk2k.com

"Spit Like This isn't your typical glam/sleaze band. Sure they have the attitude and aggressiveness, but they aren't afraid to add rarely used sounds to the mix and step outside the genre's usual boundaries. The band claims to play "slutty music 4 slutty people", and that description works for me.

"Rebel Lover" is my favorite track on this three song EP. It is an up-tempo rocker with sophisticated lyrics and a horn section that is applied at all the right times - a very nice addition, and it fits the song perfectly. Vocalist Lord Zion has a very unique voice...

... All in all this is a short but sweet release, and you can hear it for yourself at www.spitlikethis.com. Besides, even if you don't like the music, you can at least spend some time drooling at pictures of bassist Vikki Spit - skid, sleazeroxx, "dragged kicking & screaming"

"DEMO OF THE WEEK
SPIT LIKE THIS “The Pop Shot” – This is what we want, bands who don’t want to be like the others, bands who want to upset things, bands who don’t drive slow in the fast lane – Spit Like This have a reputation that flew in here well ahead of them (actually it made us go and find them) - all kinds of stories of hearses and selling used underwear on ebay to fund all musical depravity, tales of being banned from venues because of their following. Who are Spit Like This? Bats, they’re bats – throw the Rocky Horror Picture Show at some kind of punk rock version of Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell, some fractured drum machine chaos, some Alien Sex Fiend, Johnny Cash and a healthy hint of wholesomely sleazy porno and you’ve got half an idea as to what is actually going on here – well you haven’t really, that gives you no idea – filth, depravity, goths, citizen baiting punk rock theatre - hey look, I don’t know what’s going on here but whatever it is it’s good and you need to find out more – you can go infiltrate their world right now – www.spitlikethis.com / www.smellyourmum.com" - organart.com

"what a following these London-ites have built up! Their fans, effectionately known as The Slutz madly follow these guys n girls about with such hardcore dedication! I believe there may be a bus load of Slutz coming up from London for the gig... This might give you and idea of just how good these guys actually are. Reports of some of the most outrageous stage shows on the London circuit are being passed around in hushed-tones - with their outrageous over the top style, neon coloured BC-Rich Warlock guitars, offensive clothing, the Slutz and arriving to every gig in a flame coloured hearse! Probably the most entertaining live band you'll see in a long while..." wildside

"i’m reviewing this because it’s the most recent of two fine ep's sent by these mental cases. their promo package is cuter, with an illustrated biog entitled ‘spit like this and the jizz-filled fantasies of a thousand perverts’ with the entertaining tale of how the band earned enough cash to accumulate sufficient gear to become fully workable by vikki selling her used knickers on e-bay.

don’t be frightened by the suggestion they make that we envisage them, before actual listening, as motley crue meets rocky horror show, as only the last part of that pairing is vaguely accurate. they have a sort of glam bop on offer in their opening track which reminds me of a certain antish ability to mix cool, funny lyrics with a guitar/drums assault, and then they go for a stark musical layer effect with ‘vindicated’ where it gets barbarically tense and toxic, only for the introduction of vocals to lessen the impact, and definitely sound metally in tone, before the song ends back with the gritty guitars. the ‘bitter’ song is disappointingly twee, and does have the ring of a musical about it, and then there is brutishly metal pop in ‘not dead yet’ with a scary big rock showstopping finale, unless you count the bonus track which is a chintzy burst of nothing.

the first ep has this same overall feel in that three songs are brilliant, and one sounds like it’s rock opera fare (‘i need a fix’) which is at odds with the fiercely modern rock they have created with reeks of character.

in fact it was the wonderful way they have a rhythm to the playful vocals in ‘asshole’ which immediately impresses. the lyrics are clever in themselves, but the way they ride atop the guitars is superb, as is the frantic stomp. they also gives us dawdling electric blues in ‘beaten road’ and imagine a fetish version of prime time human league and that’s ‘hooked on you’. the only feeble song is ‘fix’ because it is so obvious by comparison.

three fantastic songs per ep is a consistently high rate of exchange. you really will want to hear more." - mick mercer, starvox.net

"spit like this opened a great night with an amazing set. the music was energy driven with zion (singer/guitarist) strutting away with immense flair. the band is a five piece with guitar, guitar/keyboards, bass, drums and vox/guitar. the band exuded pleasure in their music and you could tell as vikki (bass) whipped zion with a leather whip during the set. the band seemed to bring their influences from early glam rock, it was rock but back to the old school where showmanship was everything to do with the music. pure energy drove the band as they pumped out one blistering track after another. the crowd were really enjoying it and even charlotte (photographer) yelled with glee 'i've taken too many pictures but they are just so good!' this sums up spit like this, a band that are extremely photographic but damn great on the music" - lyrically speaking, june 03, live review from the peel, kingston

"this is really sordid and sleazy in such a good way. these tracks are so well put together and produced. it reminds me a lot of the deep eynde but more vulgar! this is very unique and splendidly sick. it’s definitely exciting and interesting and that goes for the sound as well as the image...this is not everyday boring music. far from it" - no front teeth, june 03, 'the pop shot!' & 'anarchy for two'

"five tracks. trashy glitter rock 'n' roll is the order of the day here - "trust your instinct" meanders crassly along while a drawn out intro on "vindicated" leads to a jagged, filthy slice of pop rock. "to the bitter end" starts with pompous keyboards, and descends sinisterly into the decayed world these guys inhabit. "not dead yet" is the full on track - short, in yer face rock 'n' roll for sure, and a final, unlisted musical track of cheesy keys and quirky rythms serves as a fine outro to bring things to a close. pure trash - check 'em" - neon promotions, 'anarchy for two'

"another dose of glammy decadence from these brit media pranksters. comprised of two insular supermodels/evil geniuses-tattooed rock god z on vox, programming, guitars, and subterfuge, and pink haired lust queen vikki on bass and sex appeal - spit like this have half a dozen layers of irony and subtext floating around before you even crack open the cd. inside they cop manson's 'disposable teens' riff whole hog on opener 'trust your instincts' and somehow turn into a dreamy, jellyfish-styled glampop tune. metallica's 'battery' gets violated on "(i feel so) vindicated" (and if lars is reading, i'm just kidding), and once again, the bedeviled duo turn the metal riffs into playful powerpop. 'to the bitter end' is a new wave ballad, complete with swells of synthesizer and 80's goth rock drums, and "not dead yet" is a pop metal anthem balanced on the razor edge of a rambunctious drum machine. oh yeah, and there's a bonus, un-named new romantic track tacked on at the end. not bad for a band that got it's start by selling off it's bass player's used panties, right? watch these cats, they threaten to mutate into wild new shapes and sounds at any minute" - sleazegrinder, may 03, 'anarchy for two'

"freaks of musical nature spit like this return with a second ep which is equally as unclassifiable as their last offering...but then you wouldn't expect a man with 'fuck you' tattooed on his forearm to try and fit in...this has no place in any musical tradition carving a genre of it's own...i'm not sure there's been a term invented to fully classify this yet so for now we'll just stick with spit like this as the closest description!" - alison, bubblegum slut zine # 11, may 03, 'anarchy for two'

"got the cd’s yesterday. you’ve got an amazing voice, and the cd's kick ass. nice job! i’ll definately give you a plug" - vince wylde, talk radio dj, usa, may 03, 'the pop shot!' & 'anarchy for two'

"here we have a british two piece glam/goth band on the heels of marilyn manson, t-rex, and bowie. here's a cd for every straight guy that finds himself wearing a cape to the queen of the damned on opening night and for every girl toting around a purse shaped like a coffin. these poor misunderstood will surely identify with the well- harmonized vocals of a mr. z and his hotter than hell female counterpart ms.vikki spit. overall production is tight on this record, and acoustic guitars cut over the keys and drum sounds to give it more of a trashy album, better than most that I've heard from this genre. lyrically, it's not genius, but it's plenty rock and spooky. and yes, the hot girl on the cover had a lot to do with the positive spin i spun on this review, but honestly, i do read a fair amount of anne rice myself, and there must be a soundtrack to my late night obsession of sculpting fangs!" - candyforbadchildren.com, april 03, 'anarchy for two'

"spit like this are one of those uniquely british cultural glitter bombs, the neon offspring of sigue sigue sputnik and transvision vamp, who have pop art, shameless commerce, and nuclear war so mixed up that the line between who's selling who no longer matters. it's just an endless download of electric pleasures, like a swimming pool full of chocolate for a love-starved brain. as such, these are not songs, they are "pop shots", which are the same color and have the same effect as jello shots, only you don't need a fake id to get 'em. imagine dennis leary's "asshole" deconstructed by a glampop suicide. imagine ice cream cowboys clip clopping down the "beaten road" on the backs of cartoon horses. imagine missing persons and fields of the nephilim wrote a song called "hooked on you" together. then spin off in dizzying circles to the throb of a grinding sex ballad called "i need a fix". this is only the sonic wing of the spit like this empire, by the way. i'm pretty sure they're really some kind of love and terror cult!" - sleazegrinder, 'the pop shot!'

"finally, probably the strangest proposition on this page, spit like this play a type of music i really can't get a handle on at all. they obviously like punk, marilyn manson, 80s new romantic electro-pop and snot, and have managed to combine them into one glutinous whole, with decent enough results on their four-tracker the pop shot. if it were given human form, this here silver disc would have broken one of your windows, ordered a pizza and been sick on the cat before you even had it out of the packet; it's certainly distinctive and has a confident swagger about it, and their quality presentation indicates a high level of dedication and seriousness which is definitely to be admired... they're doing the whole thing themselves, though, being old and wise enough to be almost as curmudgeonly as yours truly and reject the sinister workings of the music industry. part of this self-motivating ethic seems to involve the production of bizarre fridge magnets, some of which I have been fortunate enough to receive; why anybody would want a fridge magnet depicting a raised middle finger with the caption "smell your mum", i can't even begin to imagine, though having said that, my girlfriend seized upon it with unseemly gusto and it remains, to this day, firmly attached to our refrigerator. maybe there's something she's not telling me. the pop shot, anyway, isn't strictly to my underground-headed tastes, but I certainly admire spit like this's balls (and sneering lyrical attacks on white-trash slobs!), and that vikki looks a bit of a sort!" - esoterica, 'the pop shot!'

this review was in italian but we've translated it in red...

"they arrive the spit like this, and you believe to me, a radical change to the music concept has been carried out! (got the spit like this ep and the music has a radical new sound) sounds of the sort could be only conceived from two crazy english: zion, mind and voice of the group and vikki, bassista and secret moglie of satana (vikki is the wife of satan and we're both mad). the slt are resolutions to fuse with the force of metal with the orecchiabili reasons pop, compressing in this already difficult connubio also punk industrial: an eccentric conception of rock, this is the final result (slt fuse metal with the melody of pop adding punk industrial). already from the first trace of the ep, the slt have made me to understand that soon they will take to soccer in culo all the rockettari failed ones with hats caschetto that their pathetic "creations" deal us for music (slt are going to soon be playing soccer stadiums and showing everyone else how pathetic they are). ep the part with "asshole", epico beginning in order then to deflagrate in a riff catastrophic (to 230 bpm!) worthy of best the jourgensen and barker (ministry, lard) (starts off with the epic sounding asshole which soon blows your fucking mind). but the surprise is hardly to the beginning, like not citing "hooked on you" with synth an arrogant pop ' 80 and "beaten road" from i march sapore blues, covered both from crude guitars. the ep their version of the "bohemian rhapsody" is concluded after all with "i need a fix" and the more complete piece (the rest of the tracks are also surprising and fucking awesome with i need a fix being the modern day bohemian rhapsody). a day to the bank of the seed they introduced the metallica one, the duran duran and the zz top; after taken care of a unskilled labor and a good job of mixaggio, first malcapitata it was put pregnant. in 2000 it give birth, today at a distance of two years that child has become a monster from the revolutionary sounds (in 2000 slt was born and, after two years, has become a revolutionary monster - hoorah!!)" - babylon, 'the pop shot!'

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