Hawaii Samurai "Let There Be Surf" 2003

Savage, gritty and powerful hard-edged Surf Guitar instrumentals. All instro - with a good mix of original material and cover tracks. One of the top European Surf bands, you'll hear influences of Man or Astroman?, Link Wray, Dick Dale and Davie Allan, and plenty of Hawaii Samurai originality too.Hawaii Samurai are French band with an odd blend of CHUM-ish grit and a strange drama. Mixed reviews here. Some really interesting and powerful tracks amid less interesting and repetitious material. The good stuff is well worth hearing. They are probably quite an endurance test live. - Phil Dirttrax:

01 Voodoo Princess Terror 02 Our Favorite Martian 03 Surf'n'destroy 04 Astrocrypt Hellsurfers 05 Pacific Darkside 06 Surf Or Die 07 Ocean's Devil 08 Venus Polis 09 Toxic Avenger 10 Ride The Snake 11 Run Chicken Run 12 Mariachi's Fever