Riding The High Horse by Fred Schmidtlein - www.home-of-rock.de

Die zweite Zusammenarbeit des amerikanischen Labels Scarey Records mit den Italienern von Nicotine Records in diesem Monat. Grundsätzlich gilt für THE DEVILTONES das gleiche wie für JOHNNY CASINO'S EASY ACTION: Es ist Rock & Roll, schmutzig, laut und nicht für Feingeister.
Any Feingeister in the House? Ne? Dann können wir ja loslegen.
Im Gegensatz zu Herrn Casino lassen sich die Teufelstöner nicht so sehr vom R & B britischer Sixties-Machart leiten, sie beziehen sich eher auf den Hardrock der nächsten Generationen, sei es nun AC/DC oder AEROSMITH, und zwar gut abgeschmeckt mit einer Portion Früh-RAMONES. Es wird gehämmert und gezimmert, geschraubt und genagelt. Baumarkt statt Barockziselierungen. Dabei greift man ungefähr jedes greifbare Klischee simplen Bikerrocks auf - bis hin zum lasziv im String auf der Harley posierenden Knackarsch. Allerdings wäre bei dem Mädel das Gesicht auch ganz interessant. Die DEVILTONES sind also rechte Road Dogs.Weil ich aber grundsätzlich nicht an Images glaube, vermute ich eher eine Horde netter Jungs mit langen Haaren hinter dem bemühten Bad Boy Getue, da helfen auch die vielen vielen Fäkalworte in den Texten nichts. Sänger Rik kann noch so oft den Motherfucker krähen, wenn dazu ein lustiger Boogie mitsamt Piano geboten wird, verbergen sich keine Jungfrauenmörder dahinter. Unsere Freunde von AMERICAN DOG sind auch solche schlimmen Gesellen - und trinken vor dem Auftritt schnell noch nen Milkshake...So schreddern sich die Amis aus Richmond, Virginia in gesteigertem Tempo durch die kurzen Songs, unterhalten dabei bestens und legen keinerlei Wert auf ausgefeilte Harmonien oder anspruchsvolle Breaks.
Für Freunde der genannten Bands und notorische MOTÖRHEAD-Banger sind THE DEVILTONES ein gefundenes Fressen. Coole Platte!

Riding The High Horse - www.roadburn.com

The Deviltones look like lecherous, rowdy inebriates, and fortuitously this gleeful abuse of booze and pharmaceuticals is made manifest on "Riding The High Horse." Dissipated deadbeats who uniformly drink from the same tainted well that makes rock and roll such a corruptive joy.The Deviltone's sleazoid, balls-to-the-wall, 'Bury me an Angel' biker boogie is liberally peppered with the adrenalinized buffoonery of Nashville Pussy, murderous alcoholic road rage and cemented with the lurid rock thrust of prime Circus of Power...
Each of these petroleum soaked, zesty odes to the road, boast hell and fist raising taunts, fire an' brimstone Les Paul and wasted, booze-to-loose vocals, none more eloquent than the bracing, '13.69.' The mix is adequately gritty, raw and pissed off, but does suffer from a dearth of low end ballast, otherwise this disc is a hootenanny. If Steppenwolf had OD'd in 71', their desiccated, cocaine polluted corpses might now generate a similarly electric, zombiefied hell-chug. "Riding The High Horse" exudes late-night bar room chaos that's bound to make any boozy soiree go with a swing even if said swing is a nasty roundhouse to the jaw. Granted this album has all the originality of a bacon sandwich but sometimes that's all that will genuinely satisfy

Riding The High Horse - www.c14.com

Ahhh, The Deviltones. I saw them live in Las Vegas a few years back, and listened to an earlier recording of theirs. I really liked them live, but the recording (it's long gone now) sort of came and went. I think a lot of dirty rock and roll bands these days just don't capture the scum they give live on tape, and are better enjoyed in person. This CD blows a hole in the ass of that theory ! Man, it's just cool as hell, top to bottom. I have to say they wrote one of the catchiest songs I've heard in a while (track number 4, "13-69"); I played it three times in a row when I was giving this it's first listen. Based on the pictures in the CD, they're into choppers and cars and tits (although I'd suggest more tits on the next record). Musically the style is straight up rock & roll, heavy Thunders / Angus influenced guitars and songwriting, but with a harder twist. They could play your favorite outlaw biker party or local watering hole, and probably make friends at both. Thumbs up!

Riding The High Horse - www.classicrockmagazine.com

So, there's this greasy wild-eyed, scraggly-looking dude outside of my house right now. His battered green Chevy Nova is on fire, and the motherfucker is trying to beat out the flames with his trucker hat. It's awesome. And it's also exactly what The Deviltones are like. Doomed rednecks overheated engines

Riding The High Horse - punkster magazine

Cosa si fa appena si compra un cd? Lo si apre. Ecco la visione che mi si presenta in questo caso: a destra una pupa con periza disegnato su due chiappe da urlo. A sinistra 4 corpulenti bikers che fissano l’obiettivo. Sant’Antonio e il porco, si dice dalle mie parti. I porci, ovvero i Deviltones da Richmond (Virginia), sguazzano nei loro escrementi e in quelli lasciati a marcire da sozzoni tipo Dwarves, Antiseen, Electric Frankenstein e Zeke. Si rotolano gaudenti nel trash punk più lercio, poi iniziano a fare capriole. Ne vengon fuori figure southern rock alternate ad altre hard garage. Numeri di alta scuola! 4 out of 5 stars

Riding The High Horse - www.ondalternativa.it

Amanti delle birre, del pogo e dei muscoli sempre in tensione?
Questo disco fa proprio per voi. Gli americani Deviltones propongono una miscela sonora esplosiva ma che ricalca (fin troppo e senza aggiungere nulla) ciò che gruppi quali Dwarves, Stooges ed Hellacopters hanno detto/fatto al mondo musicale. Non apporteranno novità ma di certo questi quattro fetidi ragazzi spaccano gli amplificatori e lo fanno creando un sound sporco e ruvido ma preciso. Per assaporare al meglio l’essenza Deviltones si dovrebbe trovarli di fronte in uno show. Soli veloci, cantato incazzato ed una solida struttura ritmica sono le componenti Deviltonesiane.
L’affascinante glam-sound, l’irruenza punk e la compattezza rock’n roll vecchia scuola sono i generi di riferimento.