Whoremoan. A strangely appealing name. In their biography I read these guys are from London, England, make stoner rock like Queens Of The Stone Age/Kyuss and such and have already been at it for 10 years. I however was expecting utter crap, because the name albeit appealing, also sounds quite lame for a band that takes itself seriously. Take into consideration also that the CD is named ‘Youth Must Dare’. However, already during the first spin, I discovered this music was quite all right.

This is Whoremoan`s first full-length album, for until recently they had only released a couple of EP and demo’s. The first song of ‘Youth Must Dare’, ‘Killer Gorilla’ starts the CD off in a quick pace. Something for driving on the highway at 134 kilometres an hour. The first thing that catches my ear is the pretty all right production, considering they did it themselves. Then the powerful voice of Jon catches the attention. It sounds a bit like Machinehead’s Robert Flynn, and strangely enough that goes very well with the guitar driven music.

Usually I think a band that doesn’t get signed in its first five years is going nowhere, these guys are actually still going somewhere, and I think it’s up. There is a lot of bands out there that deserve their record deal a lot less than these guys. This album is not over the moon fantastic or insanely original, but still, it provides a nice backdrop to listening to blistering metal all the time. ‘Youth Must Dare’ is just simply a very well executed all round, good stoner rock album. It is nothing we haven’t heard before, but it is good. People who like stoner rock and/or Queens Of The Stone Age and such, will like this as well. I myself don’t even really like Queens Of The Stone Age that much and thought their previous album was very overrated, but I liked this one instantly. ‘Capri’, ‘Killer Gorilla’, ‘The Cow Is Now’ and ‘Holes In The Ground’ prove my point best.