Thanks for posting this. I kind-of forgot about this. I pre-ordered the CD quite a while ago - didn't remember when it was coming out. So hopefully next week it'll be coming in the mail.
I haven't listened to the whole thing yet. They've become a band that does their thing and don't stray far from it. Thankfully, for me, I dig that one thing. They're also KILLER live and remarkably consistent.
Chuck Billy IS on the album, just not what was posted- Cool tune!
I'm checking out this one now.....it's another one that'll get a bunch of people doing the "LOG SOLD THE FUCK OUT RANDY IS CLEAN SINGING OMG!!!". This one is definitely straying away from their core sound, but it's still obviously LoG. Parts of this could be a hard rock tune, for sure. Must have been a Mark tune.
As much as I dug Chris Adler, I'm not missing him. I'm onto another song and now we're getting some blast beats into the band and it's great! The rest of this same song could just have easily been Adler playing. Cruz isn't taking a thing away from this band at all. Just less piccolo snare and snare-dominated fills.
Shit, the more I get through the album, the more I'm surprised by certain sections. It's not a complete change in who they were as a whole, but there's definitely some sections in here that would not have appeared on a LoG album before and I'm diggin' in. Then occasionally you'll come across a section that's classic, Palaces-era LoG and it's fucking great.
Art Cruz is a fucking monster of a player so I'm glad to see it blew away expectations, especially after the :dgaf: first single. Dude's talented so I'm also glad to see he's not phoning it in nor is he trying to copy Chris.
I'm two songs in and so far it's just another LOG record. One thing that jumped out at me is how fake some of the drum rolls sound, especially the toms. I'm not saying they're not played, but when there is multiple fast notes on a single tom, it sounds replaced with everything at 127.
I'd say 3/4's the album is your standard LoG, but there's moments that pop up here and there where they're doing something a little different.
Agreed in regards to the drums. Everything gets a sample slapped on top of it, if not fully replaced, these days but more time could have been spent dialing that shit in.
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