Wolfsbane - Massive noise injection

We are finally entering one of my favourite seasons, I love the autumn, for some reason it makes me feel that little bit more alive. My other favourite seasons are winter, summer and spring.

Wolfsbane are I think one terribly overlooked band, relegated to a footnote in Iron Maidens history. There was an interview I saw with a band featuring at this years download festival (I don’t remember who) who were talking about iron maiden and said something along the lines of “I love everything about maiden except when they had that terrible wolfsbane guy in it”(from memory, probably not correct but that’s the gist of it). Well bollocks to them I say.

I not one for live albums as a rule but Massive noise injection is good, not because of any spectacular musicianship or nostalgic “I was there “ness (I wasn’t) but the dialogue from blaze bailey just makes me laugh, a lot. Recorded at the Marquee in February 1993 it (according to people in the know) captures their live energy extremely well.
I really wish I had seen these chaps when I had the chance, having been in the Marquee it is so get a sense of the atmosphere there must have been at this gig.

Massive noise injection as a cycling album does not do much I am afraid but then live albums rarely work for this 3/10
Reading while listening to this is also on a loser, you just cannot concentrate on a book and listen to it at the same time, it’s to distracting 2/10
Now cooking or general pottering about is another matter, while the album starts off as just background noise you are soon drawn in and it always makes you chuckle(well it works for me) 8/10

4.3333/10 ok so its not the highest scoring multi use album in the world bit I still enjoy it and I think its well worth a listen

long live Wolfsbane