Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx and L.A. Guns’ Tracii Guns know more than a little about the Sunset Strip’s seedier back alleys, and their latest side project is, naturally, littered with bad girls, bad attitude and bad habits. Brides of Destruction’s twenty-first-century spin on ’80s L.A. rock is forward-thinking and nastily catchy despite a few too many moments of hard-rock déjà vu from singer London LeGrand — his stylistic aping of frontmen from Steven Tyler to Queensrÿche’s Geoff Tate wears thin. But the album’s closing track, the sweeping “Only Get So Far,” provides a glimmer of just how beautiful these Brides can be: LeGrand finally drops his affectations, while Guns’s soaring, luscious guitar solo reaches heights not heard since his 1990 lighter-hoister “The Ballad of Jayne” cracked the Top 40.

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