The Almighty were among a number of '90s British hard rock bands (also including the Wildhearts, Wolfsbane and Thunder to name but a few), which received extremely enthusiastic reviews in their homeland but achieved little or no success in America. Much of the blame for this certainly lies with the over-patriotic British press, but in the Almighty's case, the greater problem may have been that its members were mostly veterans of the punk scene role-playing as a heavy metal band for fashion's sake. Sadly, by the time they decided to drop these pretenses and return to their roots, the group's 15 minutes of fame were almost up. \r \r After the disintegration of New Model Army in 1988, their rhythm guitarist, Ricky Warwick, founded the Almighty in his native Glasgow, Scotland with lead guitarist Tantrum, bassist Floyd London and drummer Stump Monroe. The foursome gradually moved away from their punk origins, acquiring a hard rock sound and...