This Is Spinal Tap

Say it loud! Spinal Tap is back, touring behind their new LP, Smell the Glove. It's Nigel, David, and Derek, the loudest metal trio in the UK, chunkin' anthems like “Hell Hole,” “Big Bottom,” and “Sex Farm.” Neither death nor speed metal, but something more like ore, metal before metal. Reiner's mock-doc sticks close to the Tap as their US tour, more a de-tour, circulates through failed shows and cancellations, until they amp up the attraction with the stoner Stonehenge, a mega-Druid spectacle. Push it to eleven. Not just loud, but volumes funnier than ten. Spinal Tap: let your mullets fly.

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