★★★★★
"Originality is overrated. Crank up Jackyl's 'When Moonshine And Dynamite Collide' for an AC/DC style thrill ride of riffs and screams." It's interesting to note the change in Jackyl singer Jesse James Dupree's voice since the "Lumberjack" days. Where once Dupree sounded like AC/DC's Bon Scott, now he sounds a helluva lot like latter-day AC/DC shrieker Brian Johnson...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Jackyl's studio albums are fine and dandy if you're an enthusiast of testosterone-heavy, metallic blues boogie. But it doesn't take Einstein to figure out that Jackyl is best suited for the concert stage. And their 1998 live release, Night of the Living Dead, proves this point once and for all...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
By the time Jackyl recorded Cut the Crap, they had fallen out of the spotlight and were slugging it out on the hard rock/metal circuit without much success. Part of the problem was that the group's novelty had faded away, and they weren't even that interested in making ridiculous rockers like "The Lumberjack" anymore. So, what was left was a credible AC/DC rip-off that didn't have as many hooks as AC/DC...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Forever confined to infamy as the authors of the one and only "Lumberjack" song, Jackyl nonetheless did have more to offer than that one chain saw-wielding song and its sightly video. In fact, their self-titled debut album has a good share of above-average early-'90s hair metal, making it one of the few albums of its era (and, yes, there were many) that stands out in retrospect. First off, Jackyl isn't your typical hair metal band by any measure...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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