You've heard of more bang for your buck?

Scorching power rock from the not-so-hotbed of sound that is or might be Aurora, Ohio, here comes Boulder, gaining momentum and ready to plummet down on your unsuspecting flat heads… yes, heavy rock taken to its literal extremities.

Rolling "stoned" as it were, the vibe here is pure recklessness behind the studio walls… imagine early Motorhead, at somewhere around the "Another Perfect Day" period with that "Metropolis," "Snaggletooth" type of ruggedness and blast in a few… maybe a lot more Sabbathy-fueled riffs and some well-timed puffs of backwoods smoke…

Putting it simply, the band themselves described their own sound by revealing their influences as Sabbath, Skynyrd and Motorhead…. And that's about where they're at here.

"Ravage and Savage" doesn't really have one standout track that reaches out and grabs ya by the scruff of the neck… though together they all permeate this solid base that's either gonna stick to you like glue or send you racing for the shower.

Rock and roll bore from sweat and wrinkles, Boulder is fashionably careless, and sinfully tasteless… they could well be the throwbacks to yesterday's generation of bell-bottomed, leather-vested beard-wearing hippie-freaks that really raised the eyebrow for "jam" aficionados.

You get two albums worth here starting with nine songs worth of the new stuff and then there's "The Rage of it All" that they did a couple years ago though odds are you won't tell the difference-except they hardly open their mouths for most of the time.

Not the easiest stuff to get into… great cover artwork though. Probably one of those releases you gotta throw in the disc player and let the damned thing play through for a couple hours at your next outdoor party… guaranteed to disturb your neighbors and distort your speakers… or vice versa!

Released by Tee Pee Records

Review by Vinnie Apicella