Tuesday, April 7, 2009

100-Word Reviews: Light From Above

now playing: Odd Zero - Admire the Liar


Florida's Black Tide, showing some clear inspiration from Iron Maiden, put out Light From Above in 2008. This is another band that got a lot of their popularity from Rock Band; "Shockwave" and "Warriors of Time" are face-meltingly difficult on guitar and laden with more solos than I know what to do with. The whole album, save the cover of Metallica's "Hit the Lights", is like this, combining blistering guitar with thunderous drums and rumbling bass all over clean vocals that make you wonder just where these guys have been. Black Tide is playing Warped this summer; get tickets today.

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