Artist: Grayson Manor
   Title: Children Of The Manor
   Label: Bad Reputaton

Hailing from Atlanta Georgia USA Grayson Manor are a no holds barred good time rock n' roll band very much in the vein of Skid Row, Spreadeagle and Childs Play.

The album brings back the 80’s sex, drugs and rock n' roll attitude that moulded a generation and swept away all comers in its day.

Grayson Manor hope to put an end to those no descript bands that have brought a heavy down trodden approach to music and put the energy back into the scene.

The album opens up with ‘Set You Free’ and straight away you're captured by the intense vocals of Brad Cox, whose voice transports you back to those hair metal days of the 80’s.

The kick ass rock n' roll continues with ‘New Generation’ a song that reminds me very much of Skid Row’s Slave To The Grind era, and has some fantastic guitar riff by Pat Valley.

‘High School Confidential’ is a fast paced pedal to the metal track that will take your breath away and has sleaze written all over it.

Things slow down just a touch with 'Mamasita’, ‘Sweet Sixteen' and ‘In My Skin’, but it’s the debauchery ridden tracks that really shine on the album, tracks like ‘Habitual Refugee’, ‘Farmers Daughter’ and ‘Killer On The Loose’ (no not the Thin Lizzy track).

The cover track on the album is a surprising one as the band goes in a completely different direction completely and does a semi acoustic version of Rod Stewards 'Maggie May'.

The European release of the album will have as bonus tracks the bands debut EP 'Back On The Rocks' on it, with the songs ‘Ragdoll’, ‘Enemy’, ‘Down And Dirty’, ‘Losing Salvation’, ‘No More No Way’ and ‘One Shot’.

The band hope to bring good time rock n' roll back into the mainstream and bring an end to emotionless rock music that is plaguing the youth of today.  They want to put some energy back into the souls of today’s young and with Children of the Manor they are certainly gonna do that.

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