Slow Burning Car is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based Troy Spiropoulos. Spiropolous writes the songs, plays bass, guitar, piano, and percussion on the band’s latest album, Blowback. Surrounded by a capable cadre of thirteen guest musicians (which includes LA Guns’ Tracii Guns), Spiropolous creates music that straddles the line between multiple genres. Hard rock, hair metal, southern rock, AOR, blues and progressive rock all have an influence in Slow Burning Car’s sound. Most of the tracks on the record will appeal to the hard rock fan. Although, Spiropolous demonstrates strong songwriting and an ear for the hook on jams like “A Little Sign” and “Suddenly” (which could easily be a modern rock radio hit). Blowback’s finest moments are on...

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 Maximum Ink Magazine disc review (December 2008) CD Review Slow Burning Car – Blowback Slow Burning Car Blowback Record Label: Trifonic Laboratories Review by Chris Fox December 2008 These guys are out to simply rock, and enjoy playing their music. The album starts out with the words “Fe, fi, fo, fum” and the ridiculousness just progresses from there. Mixing punk rock ideas and vocals with folk guitar and excellent song writing creates a twelve song album that is 100% one of a kind. This album mixes both peppy and slow songs as well as both dark and upbeat lyrics creating the pleasant obscurity that is SLOW BURNING CAR. They’ll show you exactly who and what...

Disc Review – Music Emmisions (Oct.2008) What do you say about a cut up of tracks and styles? Often times cheesey, other times ballsy and rhythmic. Slow Burning Car is an artist collective hailing from Southern California. Most of their guitar work is a constant almost bubbly metal sound. Often times they are goofy with backing vocals like the goofy titled “Farkytootle”. Other tracks are blitz’s of generic bar rock with a shit-eating grin. There is no method to this madness, or particular sound they are intimate with, and that may be the most impressive aspect of this release. There is no humility involved in this for them, as they are creating full-sounding songs for 25-50’s crowd of America....