Tearabyte is a mixed-bag that is more pleasure than pain.<\/p>\n
On one hand, the band wants to be taken very seriously as a
\nmetal band. As musical cousins to a Slayer or Anthrax, the band is
\na good to above-decent thrash band. Opening track “Road Rage”
\nborrows, thematically, from the Offspring’s “Bad Habit” (from
\nSmash<\/i>), spinning a tale of “pedestrians scatter run for your
\nlives\/ won’t stop till your carcass\/ is my finish line” following
\nup with “you know I’ll run you down.”<\/p>\n
The title cut of this release follows and is a good example of
\nmetal done right. Guitarist Kevin Mead introduces an errie theme
\nbefore bassist\/vocalist Al Mead and drummer Jeff Owens come in to
\ndrive the song about the “downfall of man is what is in store.” The
\nvocals are melodic and, for such a serious subject, deliver the
\nmessage of a bleak outlook on life. The guitar solo is equally
\nmelodic, although short. Drummer Owens pounds a heavy backbeat with
\nsome tasty ride cymbal accents.<\/p>\n
Then, on the other hand, you get to the quad of songs that
\nfinish out the CD. “Screaming Pig” (the abbreviated title of the
\nactual title of this song) spits venom with its lyrics, so
\noutrageously vulgar, that I can’t help chuckle when I hear\/read
\nthem. It seems to be the result of a late night, alcohol- soaked,
\nbeer bong bonanza of “how much can we throw into a song.”
\nRemarkably, the song is a gem musically. The following track
\n“Pissing Contest” carries forward thematically the dissing of the
\nsubject as Al Mead questions, ” . . . who cares\/ when you claim to
\nbe something your [sic] not\/ . . . friendship you’ll never know\/
\nmeaningless unworthiness\/ arrogance vengeance\/ trust a word you
\ndon’t understand\/ your best friends are arrogance and ego.”
\nObviously, this person is not on Mead’s top 100 list.<\/p>\n
The instrumental “Spear Of Destiny” is a good driving mid-tempo
\nof thrash metal done right. The melody is interesting and the drums
\nsynch with the change into a straight-ahead thrash tempo. When that
\nsong ends, you get “Ring Of Fire”, a Johnny Cash cover. Like
\n“Screaming Pig”, I can’t help chuckle at this song. It is
\nwell-done, musically.The CD tracks in at 50 minutes and at the end
\nof repeatedly listening to this CD, I am gathering this band’s
\nrehearsals would be a treat to sit on. They exhibit a sense of
\nhumor and can back it up with interesting music. I look forward to
\nthis band’s future releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6769],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-37440","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-tearabyte","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37440"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37440"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}