Post by thesoundmonitor on Jul 5, 2004 4:43:43 GMT -5
PTB
Harvest
(Independent)
When a bands’ promotional material proclaims “Not your mums music” followed by likening their sound to being crashed in a wave without air, you know you’re in for a big disappointment. I mean, come on… can you imagine Deicide describing themself as ‘not your mums music’? It’s kind of ridiculous and it’s always bands who play rock who tend to say such macho stuff.
Founding member Feris D’nasti describes the songs as “a hard power product of musical prostitution”. What that is exactly I’m unsure but the band has produced 10 tracks of mid-paced rock that occasionally slips into short bursts of thrash. The guitar sound is similar to a rock version of Metallica’s Master of Puppets era, only a lot slower and with far less aggression. In fact the opening riff on track 3 almost sounds like that albums title track. I fear I’m giving the band too much credit with this comparison, as I’m sure there are millions of other bands that are stylistically closer to this band, only I don’t listen to them. I’m sure fans of commercial rock could list them quite easily.
To the bands’ credit, however, the songs are quite catchy and they have added some extra depth to some of them by using keyboards. The lyrical content seems to be fairly intelligent; there’s even a song about Michael Moore. One personal issue I had was with their song ‘Warriors’, which is about their fans. I’m sure it’s just me but if you’re not in a cheesy Manowar type band, stealing their ‘metal for life’ theme is sacrilege. But that’s just a personal gripe.
All in all Harvest is quite a good catchy slab of rock that I’m sure fans of good catchy slabs of rock will like.
By Paul Irwin
www.phantombola.com
Harvest
(Independent)
When a bands’ promotional material proclaims “Not your mums music” followed by likening their sound to being crashed in a wave without air, you know you’re in for a big disappointment. I mean, come on… can you imagine Deicide describing themself as ‘not your mums music’? It’s kind of ridiculous and it’s always bands who play rock who tend to say such macho stuff.
Founding member Feris D’nasti describes the songs as “a hard power product of musical prostitution”. What that is exactly I’m unsure but the band has produced 10 tracks of mid-paced rock that occasionally slips into short bursts of thrash. The guitar sound is similar to a rock version of Metallica’s Master of Puppets era, only a lot slower and with far less aggression. In fact the opening riff on track 3 almost sounds like that albums title track. I fear I’m giving the band too much credit with this comparison, as I’m sure there are millions of other bands that are stylistically closer to this band, only I don’t listen to them. I’m sure fans of commercial rock could list them quite easily.
To the bands’ credit, however, the songs are quite catchy and they have added some extra depth to some of them by using keyboards. The lyrical content seems to be fairly intelligent; there’s even a song about Michael Moore. One personal issue I had was with their song ‘Warriors’, which is about their fans. I’m sure it’s just me but if you’re not in a cheesy Manowar type band, stealing their ‘metal for life’ theme is sacrilege. But that’s just a personal gripe.
All in all Harvest is quite a good catchy slab of rock that I’m sure fans of good catchy slabs of rock will like.
By Paul Irwin
www.phantombola.com