Just curious to see who has heard it, what they think, etc. I don't expect a bunch of replies, but what the hell, it's worth a shot.
I was going to run out and buy it as soon as it came out, just because it's new Bruce. Skunkworks, Accident of Birth and The Chemical Wedding are three very good reasons to dump 15 bucks into some new shit.
Unfortunately, this album is either a bad case of it'll grow on me or it's just mediocre. Soul Intruders is the worst song he's put out in 11 years (not including Brave New World and Dance of Death. Not sure if there's anything worse on those). Abduction is decent, nothing special. Navigate the Seas of the Sun is good, but gets old fast.
The two songs that got my attention were Devil on a Hog and Believil. DoaH has a great vintage sound to it and is catchy as hell. I love the vocal harmonies. Believil (which is really difficult to type for some reason) is a pretty good heavy song just for the sake of being heavy. Nothing wrong with that once in a while.
Every other song is pretty unremarkable. I don't blame it on lack of Adrian... He only wrote on 2 songs for Chemical Wedding, and they were my least favorites on the album. I don't blame it on Bruce either, because the lyrics are passable and his voice sounds fucking fantastic. And you can't particularly blame anything on Bruce because it's impossible to distinguish between the parts written by him and the parts written by Roy.
The whole thing just feels bland. Atleast I got a couple good tunes out of it.
I was going to run out and buy it as soon as it came out, just because it's new Bruce. Skunkworks, Accident of Birth and The Chemical Wedding are three very good reasons to dump 15 bucks into some new shit.
Unfortunately, this album is either a bad case of it'll grow on me or it's just mediocre. Soul Intruders is the worst song he's put out in 11 years (not including Brave New World and Dance of Death. Not sure if there's anything worse on those). Abduction is decent, nothing special. Navigate the Seas of the Sun is good, but gets old fast.
The two songs that got my attention were Devil on a Hog and Believil. DoaH has a great vintage sound to it and is catchy as hell. I love the vocal harmonies. Believil (which is really difficult to type for some reason) is a pretty good heavy song just for the sake of being heavy. Nothing wrong with that once in a while.
Every other song is pretty unremarkable. I don't blame it on lack of Adrian... He only wrote on 2 songs for Chemical Wedding, and they were my least favorites on the album. I don't blame it on Bruce either, because the lyrics are passable and his voice sounds fucking fantastic. And you can't particularly blame anything on Bruce because it's impossible to distinguish between the parts written by him and the parts written by Roy.
The whole thing just feels bland. Atleast I got a couple good tunes out of it.