STYLE: Hard Music RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 11359- LABEL: Regency FORMAT: CD Album ITEMS: 1
Reviewed by Dave Caughey
Why oh why do Word (UK) insist on issuing LPs which are a couple of years old, especially when, in the case of Neon Cross, the band have split up. (It's particularly galling when we consider the UK has yet to see Sacred Warrior's "Rebellion" and Vengeance's marvellous "Human Sacrifice" - probably the two most important white metal LPs of recent years.) What I am trying to say is that the Neon Cross album is a bit of a danker. It is difficult to put one's finger on where Neon Cross went wrong. Maybe it's because the songs are very samey. Possibly it's because the guitar playing is unimaginative. Or could it be because the drumming is so tediously basic. Neon Cross did have a good singer in the form of David Reeve who wenKon to form an excellent bluesy rock band called Trilogy, which I saw live in LA last summer. David's voice sounds great in its low and middle registers, but in songs such as "We are The Children" and "Far Cry From Eden" his high-pitched vocals are downright painful. "Heartbreaker" is a passable song because of the nice bridge in the middle, but the majority of the tracks plod along in a very basic metal style. Predictability is very much the order of the day here. This album is typical of where white metal is going sadly wrong. Neon Cross say many things which would be beneficial to the non-Christian listener, but as is the case with the majority of other white metal bands, they do not have the musical quality to back it up.
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Don