Burned Mind - Wolf Eyes

Advantages: Lengthy debut album gives a fair indication of the band and their style.
Disadvantages: Difficult to listen to all the way through, only for serious heavy metal fans.

...Overview… The original 'Burn My Eyes' album was released in August 1994. Machine Head's debut was tipped by many metal critics (including Metal Hammer magazine) to be the future of metal music. This was despite the combination of metal and so-called 'thrash' dying a somewhat whimpering death. Indeed, 'Burn My Eyes' proved surprisingly successful in the British charts and allowed the band to become one of the biggest names in the metal world. Album Art/Information… The album cover is interesting and colourful enough but the picture of a man literally 'burning' his eyes suggests this is not music for the faint-hearted. However, too much space is given over to this image of human suffering rather than selling the band. A debut album should alert a customer to the band's name. Instead, Machine Head's black and yellow logo is... Read review

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Advantages: Older Alice Fans May Be Pleased/ / A lot of great songs!
Disadvantages: None especially. Some songs may be too bizarre for some to take seriously.

...Shock rock singer Alice Cooper returned in 2003 along with the release of "The Eyes Of Alice Cooper", which not only sports a vintage Alice Cooper appearance through his spider-design eye make-up on the CD sleeve, but also sound wise, but more on that later. Alice had recently put out two very hard head banging albums, "Brutal Planet" and "Dragontown", both in my opinion are exceptional concept albums full of horror and great imagery. However, "The Eyes of Alice Cooper" sees a departure from this industrial side of Alice, and somewhat returns to his roots. Which are by the way of the 70s, although some material does exist here that is reminiscent of the early 80s, such as the album "Special Forces" and "Flush The Fasion". Although the 80's era for Alice wasn't as successful as the 70's, the 80's music does tend to prove much more... Read review

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...When you first see the cover of Burning Trees eponymous album, you automatically get an idea of what you are about to be treated to. The individual shots of the band look like shots of any number of musicians from the early seventies, a fact that they were probably proud of and one that hides the actual release of the album, 1990. The seventies feel doesnt end there but oozes from every note of their music. Their influences are worn openly upon their collective sleeves, Hendrix, Clapton, Cream, Blind Faith immediately spring to mind. Im sure you could pass these songs off as unleased material by any one of those band just listed. That aside, Burning Tree are no plagaristic rip off merchants, the songs may have a feel of a different era but they are still original. These guys are revivalists rather than thieves, taking old styles... Read review

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