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Venus Luxure is a less celebrated record, for sure. That said, I recently repurchased the thing on vinyl and would be hard-pressed to name too many slabs of hard rock that are as consistent. These guys just nailed it and, especially if the band’s major label dalliance and Jade Tree fallout retroactively colored your image, it’s definitely time to revisit the thing.
Back in the day—or at least as recent as House of GVSB—they were still a tight-as-a-vice-grip live act.