Black Tide
Light From Above
Interscope
This is mostly a hard rock with a few leanings towards metal. It’s kind of good ol fashioned hard catchy rocky stuff. Some cool riffage, great playing, and generally fun to listen to. Of course there’s always a catch, they do have a little bit of a gimmick. No one in the band is over 17 years old! You may remember them as the metallica-esque band on Ozzfest a couple years ago, or was it last year? Either way, it’s not too bad, and it’s worthy of a listen on the Mosh Pit!
Various Artists
WWE: The Music Vol. 8
Columbia
49:15 - 14 Tracks
I’m not a big wrestling fan, I can respect and understand what it’s all about. These are yet another collection of entrance themes for the WWE dudes and dudettes from RAW, Smackdown and ECW. Some are actual songs, some are just theme musicey stuff. Most of it is fairly accessible. However, Track 13, the theme for “Mr. Kennedy” is a track for the band Airbourne, who are coming to town in a few weeks. So you’ll at least hear this track on the Mosh Pit!
Dead Child
Attack
Quarterstick
47:35 - 11 Tracks
Kind of doomy, thrashy and gosh, I dunno. A little bit like Trouble if I had to pick a comparable band off the top of my head. I guess they are vocally a little bit like Kyuss. The songs are pretty catchy, have some great riffs and some cool thrash elements.
Dismember
Dismember
Regain
42:41 - 11 Tracks
Classic sounding Swedish death metal from a band that is one of the pioneers of this genre. It’s in your face, heavy and not quite melodic like the Soilworks and In Flames. This leans more toward the dark and heavy side of what you may hear from Hypocrisy. :) The production on this is a bit raw (seemingly on purpose) to capture the dark and evilness about it. It’s fairly doomy, but gets up to some good speed in many parts. With a history like what these guys have, how can ya not play it? (Plus it’s a decent CD)
Firewind
The Premonition
Century Media
45:19 - 10 Tracks
The buildup in the first track is just cool. Just a nice slow musical build-up right into some euro-thrashy prog metal. These guys don’t quite fit into the Primal Fear, Sonata Arctica of the typical formula prog/power metal. I think the vocals have a good edge to them and the rhythm section keeps it pretty “good” metal and not so “nerd” metal. While it’s not as edgy as Mystic Prophecy, I do find them fairly enjoyable…. with elements from all kinds of traditional metal mixed in. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!
Various Artists
Voices of Rock MMVII
Locomotive
49:17 - 10 Tracks
Well, there was no info with this CD, it looks like it’s just a bunch of “voices” singing AOR type rock songs. Of course the internet is your friend. Check out their myspace page here: http://www.myspace.com/voicesofrock This isn’t something that I think we’ll break into on the Mosh Pit, but as always, if it gets more than a sentence written up here, if you request it, we’ll play it!
