Reviewed in MOJO

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Heavy Metal Fruit was reviewed in the May issue of MOJO. It received 4 stars, meaning brilliant. They’re termed “northern Europe’s own Zeppelin” and are linked with such greats as Miles Davis and The Who. Snah’s also being labeled an “axe-wizard”.

Not the worst place to receive such acclaim!

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careful with that axe, hans!

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Here is a transcription by Erik Helleve posted to 35 on 07.04.2010:

Norwegian prog-punkers, still motorin’ hard

With a gracious liner nod to ”the mighty BÖC for the album title”, Motorpsycho’s 14th magnum opus in 20 years is, finally, their definitive record. From Stoogey roots in ’89, the trio blossomed into northern Europe’s own Zeppelin, thanks to the copiously Ledded prog-punk-metal of their marathon live shows. Mid-period albums ably disgressed into delicate West Coast pop, but since losing their drum anchorman in ’05, they’ve not faltered, re-embracing mountain-high rockage on a run of four pulsatingly heavy albums, culminating with this 60 minute monster. The opening Starhammer finds axe-wizard Hans Magnus ’Snah’ Ryan picking brittle, otherworldly abstractions like latterday Tom Verlaine, but by The Bomb-Proof Roll And Beyond, he’s thrumming up a rotor-blade cyclic storm. W.B.A.T. segues startlingly from skittering Miles’s Dark Magus fusion into skyscraping Physical Graffiti riffage, before four-parter Gullible’s Travails moods-hops Quadrophenia-like towards an epic, arms-aloft conclusion. (Andrew Perry, 4/5)

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