Post by dangerzone on Jun 21, 2006 16:59:38 GMT -5
Overloaded 'Hail to The Kingdom'
After twenty five years and 19 seminal hard rock albums, Detroit's Overloaded are back for another crack at rock supremacy! How come you've never heard of them? Well this is their first album after one year of existence, that's why. After hearing their attempts to recapture the 80's hard rock and metal era one gets the impression they wish they had stats like the ones I presented in the opening line. The spate of bands trying desperately to recapture the spirit of the 80's and failing is out of hand. Hammerfall are the worst offenders it must be noted. Overloaded to their credit do a better job, but without major label backing and big budget production, the inevitable result will be obscurity and hanging out at the local record store with Biff.
'Beaver Fever'. A blatant or genuine title? One half of me thinks they created the most raunchy ttile possible to be instantly associated with old fashioned hard rock, while the other half thinks the same thing as well. At least they have the decency to rip off Van Halen's '5150' sound, a mixture of 'Good Enough' meets 'Best of Both Worlds'. Actually I could do with listening to that right now. Gillen's vocal style is a mixture of Sammy Hagar and Chris Cornell, the latter the more dominant typically. 'War Of The Worlds' could pass for some junk 1985 metal like Malice or Mad Max followed by more attempted classic hard rock in 'Overloaded' with yawning lyrics like 'rock and roll can't be defeated'. You're heroes boys. You will save rock. Still it's better than Audioslave. The band turn into Dokken with Cornell on vocals during 'Where Are You Running To', before the band unleashes a sub power/speed metal turkey 'King Of The Landfill', low budget metal with speed but no emotion.
'Cyclone' and 'Sick' might make you think this is a 1995 grunge album with their lousy one word titles. That's the worst. 'Alone'. 'Deprive'. 'Barren'. 'Stark'. 'Weak'........This isn't the worst album I've heard recently, but it's too late to try and resucitate an era that only the bands from the time still have success with. The band sent a four track ep of new material with this CD and it's a replica of the ideas represented here. 'Heavy Metal Highway' is more overdone than even 'Beaver Hunt' in terms of trying to gain instant cult status. 'Hey look at us, we're writing old school metal dudes! What you don't care? Hey there were fifty people at our last gig and we supported Royal Hunt once!' Good for one listen then easily replaced by Hagar and co. 'Rack a what? I'll have some of that!!'
Rating; C
After twenty five years and 19 seminal hard rock albums, Detroit's Overloaded are back for another crack at rock supremacy! How come you've never heard of them? Well this is their first album after one year of existence, that's why. After hearing their attempts to recapture the 80's hard rock and metal era one gets the impression they wish they had stats like the ones I presented in the opening line. The spate of bands trying desperately to recapture the spirit of the 80's and failing is out of hand. Hammerfall are the worst offenders it must be noted. Overloaded to their credit do a better job, but without major label backing and big budget production, the inevitable result will be obscurity and hanging out at the local record store with Biff.
'Beaver Fever'. A blatant or genuine title? One half of me thinks they created the most raunchy ttile possible to be instantly associated with old fashioned hard rock, while the other half thinks the same thing as well. At least they have the decency to rip off Van Halen's '5150' sound, a mixture of 'Good Enough' meets 'Best of Both Worlds'. Actually I could do with listening to that right now. Gillen's vocal style is a mixture of Sammy Hagar and Chris Cornell, the latter the more dominant typically. 'War Of The Worlds' could pass for some junk 1985 metal like Malice or Mad Max followed by more attempted classic hard rock in 'Overloaded' with yawning lyrics like 'rock and roll can't be defeated'. You're heroes boys. You will save rock. Still it's better than Audioslave. The band turn into Dokken with Cornell on vocals during 'Where Are You Running To', before the band unleashes a sub power/speed metal turkey 'King Of The Landfill', low budget metal with speed but no emotion.
'Cyclone' and 'Sick' might make you think this is a 1995 grunge album with their lousy one word titles. That's the worst. 'Alone'. 'Deprive'. 'Barren'. 'Stark'. 'Weak'........This isn't the worst album I've heard recently, but it's too late to try and resucitate an era that only the bands from the time still have success with. The band sent a four track ep of new material with this CD and it's a replica of the ideas represented here. 'Heavy Metal Highway' is more overdone than even 'Beaver Hunt' in terms of trying to gain instant cult status. 'Hey look at us, we're writing old school metal dudes! What you don't care? Hey there were fifty people at our last gig and we supported Royal Hunt once!' Good for one listen then easily replaced by Hagar and co. 'Rack a what? I'll have some of that!!'
Rating; C