4Bitten - No More Sins

Originally a pub covers band, 4Bitten have a sound that’s quite obviously borne of a love for stadium rockers such as Thunder, Whitesnake and ZZ Top, and have the songs that, some years ago, would have guaranteed them a place among those acts. Their rock is far too dramatic to be restricted to pub stages, but they have two things standing in their way before they can become great (not counting the name – they’re a quartet and ‘bitten by the rock bug’): singer Fofi's tremendously powerful voice is marred by her amateurish tendency to caterwaul, even when a little restraint would serve the songs infinitely better; moreover,the production on this album is atrocious, with possibly the flattest guitar sound ever committed to tape. Unfortunately, this means that some outstanding music - and the kind of riffs that Faith No More axeman Jim Martin would kill for - are hopelessly buried way below the vocals.