Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It could be argued that the world needs Black Star Riders like it needs to bang together the heads of those who are quite happy to stoke up the fires of war in the Ukraine. The chances of the latter happening are about as likely as One Direction suddenly throwing their lot into the realms of Heavy Metal, the former much easier to believe; especially with the band’s second album, The Killer Instinct, being unleashed and ready to destroy any doom mongers the planet is hiding up its rigid sleeve.