With hindsight, the collaboration between Des Rocs and the Borderlands franchise feels so obvious. Both the artist and the looter-shooter game series channel a renegade energy, whether you’re fighting off maniacs on an alien planet or singing about New York bikers with a heavy old-school rock influence. Both draw you into another world and leave an unforgettable impression in their wake. Maybe the first exposure a lot of us had to Des Rocs was via ‘This Land’ being included in Borderlands 4, or maybe it’s via his high profile tour support slots with Muse and The Rolling Stones. Either way, he’s here to stomp his footprint in the rock landscape with an outlaw sound that’s original and compelling with ‘To Hell And Back’, his third full-length in five years.
Let’s start with the big single; ‘This Land’ is a huge slab of riffs that explodes with strutting menace on the western instrumentals and chucks in eminently flammable choruses. It’s only half the story of the album though. While...
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