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Kyng - Breathe in the WaterLabel: Razor & TieFormat: CD Download Released: 2016 Reviewed By: Jack Mangan Rating: 8.5/ 10 |
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On their third album, "Breathe in the Water," Kyng serve up one raucous, rocking, engaging, forthcoming barn-burner after another. These guys take subtle blues-based Metal sensibility with just a hint of the Country and fuse it with L.A. swagger, and they make it sound easy. You could reference Nickelback. . . but that'd be an insult in most circles. A far better comparison would be Foo Fighters, but more of their gritty, ass-kicking speaker-blowers, not Dave Grohl's slick, chart-climbers. Think also: Badlands, King's X (coincidentally), Non-Fiction, Corrosion of Conformity, Soundgarden, the stuff Metallica got right during the "Load" days, and maybe even some Bush-era Anthrax. It's a bit of a stretch to draw a line to God Lives Underwater, but I'm going to go there anyway (again, coincidentally). I hear it in a few of the tracks, especially in the vocal harmonies. |
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This is a collection of solid song riffs - - probably none better than the central guitar line in ‘Closer to the End’. But it's the fantastic grooves that supply the oxygen to keep the listener swimming and breathing underwater. Give all three guys in the band credit, but top marks to drummer, Pepe Clarke. He attacks the drums with power enough to induce whiplash. The tracks pack serious punch, and an energized live feel that no studio can fake. Guitarist/Vocalist Eddie Veliz's classic-throwback holler never fails to humanize the songs, melding soul and grit with power, making the experience more like a firm handshake than a disconnected conference call. Aside from ‘Closer to the End’, the stand-out tracks for me are ‘The Dead’ (the guitars are wonderfully reminiscent of Led Zeppelin's classic ‘Achilles Last Stand’), ‘Pristine Warning’, ‘Not Enough’, and the album closer, ‘What I'm Made Of / Reckoning Part 2’. Mainstream hard rock stations take note: this is the band you're looking for.
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