Courtesy of Aberto Vitale on Methalhead.it: (...) In the title of The Steel Bones' debut album, there is a clear and not at all banal message. Yes, it's their first album, but perhaps it's not their first step; the Marche-based band may have already taken that step when Carlo Lantieri and Ivan Battistella felt the need to try their hand at creating their own material in 2020. Writing songs and not just covering or parodying someone else (...)

Courtesy of Jacopo Meille on Rocknation.it: (...) "Empty Heads" and "West End Highway" surprise with their sound and with their ability to show a compositional maturity that is increasingly rare to hear these days. It's songs like these that show how even a genre that is also made up of clichés can always give true emotions... The roughness of "Good To Be Alive" and the sweetness of "Scars Remains" with the specter of "black crows" that serenely hovers over the quartet raise the value of an album that, if it had been released by a major label and with significant promotional support - not to offend the extremely courageous Red Cat Music - could aspire to much more deserving responses and glories (...)

Courtesy of Stefano Bonelli on TEMPIDURI.eu: (...) try listening to this album, "which deserves it all" and let yourself be carried away on the desert highway (...) if you do so, you'll first hear crickets and percussion, but then a great explosion of rock, that old-school heavy rock we had lost track of, and then the fantastic timbre of Ivan Battistella's voice completes the rest of the magic (...) After "Empty Heads," we get an insane acoustic riff, an atmosphere from another time, "West Highway" (...) Another wonderful ballad, "Scars Remain," who can say they don't have those wounds that fry your brain no matter how much they hurt and no matter how hard you try to forget they remain closed in your heart and that's how you live. "Rock Company" almost closes the album, this is a piece that Ted Nugent could have written, you know, "Cat Scratch Fever"? Finally, another exciting song that has to do with the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," but it's not a cover, it's a reference that evidently lay at an inspirational level and came out as a closing song, as in a sort of birth (...)

Courtesy of Luigi Cattaneo on Progressivamenteblog.blogspot.it: (...) In the 35 minutes of work, tracks like the lively "Better," the dreamy "Scars Remain," the masterful "Good to be alive," and the colorful "Hunter of Tears" unfold, key episodes of an exciting debut full of southern moods (...)

Courtesy of Wolverine on Metalwave.it: (...) Undoubtedly, what emerges from the platter gives the impression of being in front of musicians who are far from being beginners, but rather of elements who have their own professional and personal experiences as artists behind them. The eight tracks, condensed in less than fifty minutes of listening, easily catch the attention of the listener, recalling bands such as Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and others, just to realize the extent of the work whose qualities are a source of inspiration and are taken up and personalized in the best possible way by the band. The best tracks fall in "West End Highway" for the pleasant opening riff, but also the dynamic and straightforward "Better", remarkable hard rock riff with a slide for "Good To Be Alive", a song that focuses on an excellent compositional solution both rhythmically and for variations and inevitable fun; not to mention "Rockompany", a song based on gritty and overwhelming rock, the true force of the platter (...) A well-made debut album for this band, entertaining, personalized, and ready to put on a show (...)

Courtesy of Gianni della Cioppa on Musicalnews.it: (...) The music of Steel Bones unfolds following the groove of the most classic Southern rock: a strong component of traditional music (generally blues and country) that a rock'n'roll fuse ignites in a dense and wild style (...) (...) their songs often turn their backs on the more complex blues rock, which is generally hidden by the impetus of the guitars, contaminating it with bursts of hard rock, or exalting to excess the components of grit, vitality, and sonic sadism (...) it is a lineup of hard rock often with an epigonic flavor: ranging from the gritty hard rock of "Empty Heads" reminiscent of the Black Crowes, to the hard-boogie of Humble Pie in "West End Highway," to the epic progression of "Better," to the more overt Southern classicism of "Good To Be Alive" (submerged by guitar clangs) and "Rockcompany" (...)

Courtesy of Alfredo Cristallo on Micsugliando.it: (...) The music of Steel Bones follows the path of the classic southern rock: a strong component of traditional music (generally blues and country) that a rock'n'roll fuse ignites into a dense and wild style (...) their songs often turn away from the more composite blues rock that is generally hidden by the impetus of guitars, contaminating it with bursts of hard rock, thus exalting the components of grit, vitality, and sonic sadism (...) it is a series of hard rock songs often with an epigonic flavor: from the gritty hard rock of "Empty Heads" reminiscent of Black Crowes, to the hard-boogie of Humble Pie in "West End Highway", the epic progression of "Better", to the more overt classic southern style of "Good To Be Alive" (submerged in guitar clangs) and "Rockcompany" (...)