On-Off: Ribcrasher

Self-Produced
2010

Who is the most copied hard rock ever? To my ears there is no doubt that it's AC/DC. Even though that band's prime was was thirty or more years ago it still seems like today there are more and more bands that come out sounding like them. I am not sure if the reason is because is people love them so much or because it's easy to me. My guess is most cases that it's a combination of the two. Here we have On-Off who actually started out as an AC/DC cover band. The music reaches back to the earlier boogie of say Dirtys Deeds and Let there be rock. A couple of the songs have riffs that are very similar to that era. Where On-Off get away from being a total clone is in the vocals. Guitarist/vocalist Matteo Vego does reach into a Bon Scott mode on a couple of songs. For the most part he sings as himself and his voice is more of an 80's hard rock style. That does compliment the music and keeps this band from being a complete copy. There are a few songs where they as a band bring more of their own sound and get away at least a little from their prime influence. There are enough AC/DC inspired three chord riffs here to appeal to fans of that band, but On-Off also manage to bring forth enough elements of their own to set them apart from other bands.