Song of the week Mastodon - Pushing the Tides

 Song of the week

 

 

Mastodon - Pushing the Tides

It's the first new music from the band's upcoming album Hushed And Grim

 

MAMMOTH WVH- "MAMMOTH WVH"

Modern rock, hard rock ,from Wolfgang Van Halen and his band, that is miles away from his fathers band and still sounds fresh and interesting. A lot more influenced from the American British pop/prog bands of the 00sat so gs like 'Epiphany' you can listen the difference between father and son. On the other hand at "Don't back down" you have an example on how modern Hard rock keeps evolving based on the constant massive riff and the infectious groove. MAMMOTH WVH are a modern rock band and they deliver their music, free from heritage,names and traditions, that's why they re so focus on music and so successful. That goes if you're not stuck in the golden 80s and thank God WVH isn't."Resolve" is a fine example on how he writes a song based on a strong guitar riff with the melody upfront driving the song.

 

 

The same title song is a great example on how MAMMOTH WVH understand modern hard rock, a hint of SOUNDGARDEN,MUSE, SMASHING PUMPKINS, and a big part of melody over the well chosen riff that the song will be based on. Song ready for today's radio. "Circles" is among them with its mesmerizing structure and the keyboards set the pace for an excellent summer  song. Closer 'Distance' the first single from the album is a fine song craft example and a great tribute to Eddie VH by his son. A modern rock song and simultaneously a touching tribute from the son to his father. Only for this, EVH would be proud of his family legacy. The only objection I have is the album length as the style of the songs can become a bit boring from a point and after, if you're not in the modern rock type of songwriting/drumming.

7,5

 

DEE GEES- "Hail satin"

 

 

This album normally wouldn't get a rate. BEE GEES are among the biggest name in the Disco,Pop music and FOO FIGHTERS in the rock community. Dave Grohl FF leader is the man who bridges gapσ and validates artists and genres.The well known battle between rockers and disco fans is ver as DG gives their rendition of some BEE GEES classics very similar to the originals as he respects the Gibb brothers and ask the rockers to let their hair down and dance. He manages this quite easily with an album equally FF and BG with his falsetto voice and the honest approach to sme dance anthems that delivers with faith and admiration. Hail satin and get your bell bottom trousers entering the disco ballroom.DG showed us the way.I hope he will do the same for some FM rock of the 70s/80s he has the magic touch. 

 

 

The rest of the "ep" is filled with some FF songs from their latest works , as always straight in your face rockers like "No son of mine" but with a pop sensibility. and groove "Cloud spotter". Five tracks from Medicine At Midnight, recorded live at their own 606 studio, on Side B. The whole album is a Record Store Day  exclusive project and really reminds us why Grohl is above and beyond a true and unpretentious music lover.

 

7,5

7,5

Song of the week Eddie Vedder - Long Way

 Song of the week

 

 

Eddie Vedder - Long Way

"Long Way" is the new single by Eddie Vedder from his upcoming solo album, Earthling. 

Pre-order a special limited-edition 7" vinyl featuring "Long Way" and the soon-to-be-released song, "The Haves": https://eddievedder.lnk.to/LongWayTen...

 

THE UGLY KINGS- "Strange, strange times"

Modern heavy rock with a good dose of Johnny Cash, alternative rock and low tuned guitars. Following the steps of bands like VOLBEAT and less QOTSA as their band insist.THE UGLY KINGS is a band that aim at the modern rock radio and the ears of those who like their metal watered with modern elements. The metal country as I call it, with the blues, country, outlaw country and the massive sound of the 90s and nu metal is here a very attractive album for the first time listener. 

 

 

Big hooks, groovy, massive and a radio friendly approach. The alternative  scene of the 90s from THERAPY to GARBAGE and SKUNK ANANSIE is the major influence that drives the album to a melodic, riff driven climax from the slow burner opener "Strange,strange times''. Stoner rock is far less an influence, except if you are still among those who think that modern heavy rock bands like CLUTCH are stoner. "Do you feel like you re paranoid" is a fine example on how focus,THE UGLY KINGS are on modern rock songs with mass appeal. The groove and the intensity of the riff is their main advantage. "In the shadows" remind of a more metallic Iggy Pop "Home" era and they do it really well.

7

 

Big City- "Testify X"

Modern melodic heavy rock,in the vein of the wet dreams that Scandinavian rock is with the needed guitar virtuoso show off and some major hooks. Songs like 'Heart like a lion" could be IRON MAIDEN meets HOUSE OF LORDS and the whole album is filled with modern melodic rock that has also elements of the melodic side of NWOBHM (PRAYING MANTIS TOBRUK etc). "Graveyard love" comes with an opener like the glory days of TEN and moves to frenzy guitar driven melodic song reminiscent of early Malmsteen, TALISMAN with a touch of US power scene. From the opener "The rush" is like QUEENSRYCHE met JOURNEY or even better TOTO to the more WASP meets QUEENSRYCHE ``Dark rider" the band combines the heaviness with commercial touch. "Testify" has this majestic riff that demands your attention and when keyboards enter is a treat for the ears with its melodic breaks and the addictive hooks. I guess DEMON are the band they really have as an abstract idea regarding combining metal and melody.

Big City is a melodic metal band from Norway, The band was originally put together by guitarist and songwriter Daniel Olaisen.  Frank Ørland, who also played with Daniel in Scariot (prog/thrash/heavy band featuring Communic and Spiral Architect members), was an obvious choice to bring to Big City as the second guitarist. Frank Nordeng Røe (Withem, Maraton, session drummer for Circus Maximus and Leprous) was brought in on drums . The band was then completed with Jan Le Brandt on vocals and Geir Inge Olsen, who was brought in as a session bass player.The band's debut album, "Winter sleep", was initially released in 2014 and later on re-released by the Greek label Rock of Angels in 2018 as part of a deluxe edition of their second album,In 2019, the band started working on a new album and brought in a new singer, Jørgen Bergersen from Rock the Night (Europe cover band) and the new demos caught the interest of Frontiers who moved swiftly to sign the band.

 

 

A band who know how to write songs, big, pomp,metallic, yet melodic like early EUROPE but with a more progressive/,melodic feeling. RACER X is another fine example that could come to mind, but BIG CITY don't need and don't want comparisons. TNT in their early years are a good comparison, only here the sound is more metal and less anthemic in the way Le Tekro writes. Great choruses and some serious guitar work are making "Testify X"  a stand out album in a saturated genre and era. An album that aims to metal fans and don't look at the pathway to AOR, pop, disco paths but is still an amalgam of melody and catchy riffs and hooks.

 

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Song of the week Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Banjo

 Song of the week

Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Banjo

Brian Setzer's first solo album in 7 years, 'Gotta Have The Rumble,' is available now! https://smarturl.it/GottaHaveTheRumble 

Produced by Julian Raymond (Glen Campbell and Cheap Trick), GOTTA HAVE THE RUMBLE contains songs, all written or co-written by Setzer, and was recorded in Minneapolis (Setzer’s adopted hometown) and Nashville. GOTTA HAVE THE RUMBLE is a red-hot album from start to finish--American music amped up to 10--with songs that are full of dynamism and bravado. 

 

“Obviously, it’s a reference to my motorcycles and hot rods, something that hasn’t changed since I was 15 years old. I still have the same passion for going fast and adrenaline. But it’s also about my hearing problem with tinnitus--the ringing of the ear. It was pretty bad, and I realized that I couldn’t play the way I wanted to. As I recovered, standing in front of a small amplifier just didn’t cut it. The sound from my big amp makes the guitar rumble. Which is a big part of my sound. I was really despondent for a while because I thought I wouldn’t be able to do that again. So, ‘Gotta Have The Rumble’ refers to both of those things.” - Brian Setzer