Like Van Halen and the CrĂĽe, they were the house band at L.A. hair metal haven, Gazarri’s, albeit only crafting one major label record, making them a footnote.
Eliminating the open environments and trick/mission-based challenges and focusing on downhill races, Downhill Jam creates a fast, funny, attractive racer.
Like Paradise Lost, Amorphis seems bent on encompassing their catalogue and compressing it into diamonds of progressive, note-dense, mostly quite heavy tracks.