This isn’t the kind of collection that will make your brain bulge at every chord change. It has its dirges, digressions and self-indulgent moments and minutes.
Unlike shoegazer bands that use walls of distortion to enunciate visceral dreaminess, this band’s bopping beats and quiet arpeggios evoke the same experience.
Adam West goes for a cleaned-out, amped-up riff roar that fueled both the clean-lined arena rockers. Think AC/DC ’78, UFO tunes, and some choice Nazareth.
Plenty of bands play this heavily at tempos this slow, but very few make it breathe like Acid King. The grooves are simple and fluid with plenty of space.
Both bands have been holding down the DIY fort in CT for a long time, even if their music hasn’t progressed past “average local opening band” maturity.
Mature, self-aware and highly enjoyable, Into The Light proves that Coverdale was a true blues’n’ballad artist incredulously flung into hair band stardom.
Originally, In The Sign… contained four songs, three of which were re-recorded for their full-length. This is the debut MCD, with two Bathory cover bonuses.
New vocalist for record two, but same quick-footed Swedish death sound as Darkane drill the listener, propelled by the Calamity Kane drumming of Peter Wildoer.