Kill Cheerleader, who took up residence in L.A. after being chased out of Canada for being too lewd, already have an amazing amount of hype to live up to for such a young band. The four piece, who look like they need a good nap, is being hailed as punk-rock saviors and are getting serious props from such self appointed fans like Motorhead’s Lemmy and Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx. Critics are predicting that the band is poised to be the next Gun’s N Rose’s (Although they say that about many bands in these meger times) and have the swagger to prove it. There’s no question the band can rock as the bands new album All Hail! proves. The real question is can the band live up to the pre -fabricated media hype or will they wind up being the next Phantom Menace.

Well, that all depends and it’s hard to tell whether the band are truly the surly rouges that they made out to be or are they just another group of hopeful young boys that will soon learn the inner workings of jockeying a cash register. It a hard call, All Hail! Rocks in places; the album catches the sneering sarcasm of the Sex Pistol’s classic Never Mind the Bollocks but isn’t as catchy or politically incorrect as the punk rock cornestone.

As for the comparisons to Gun’s N Roses, those seem to be made out of the same desperation that drives people to buy CD's from American Idol winners.  The album manages to hit a good stride in the middle of the record with key tracks like Don’t Call Me Baby, Baby and Bad Habit. Yet All Hail! Can’t manage to match the opening punch, or the closing confusion, of Appetite For Destruction Plus, there’s a friggin unicorn on the albums cover and picture of a boy wearing pink bikini underwear on the inside. The result is the band coming off more like Metrosexuals than seasond street punks.

Lemmy, who invited the band on tour with Motorhead recently, summed up the situation best in his autobiography White Line Fever. “It’s depressing nowadays because you have to dig to find good band, and there seem to be thousands of awful ones.” Kill Cheerleader have as good as chance as any.