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Untamed are a 5 piece metal band who formed in Peterborough,
the band have quite a hectic sound which is partly
due to the twin guitar attack, despite being hectic
and loud sounding the band also keep it real with
an all over retro sound. The guys started off by
playing cover songs of Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas
Priest and many of the other old school metal bands
before sitting down to pen their own songs which
have now been going down well at their gigs for
years.
The debut album from Untamed was called 'Nature's
Messiah' and it was released in 2003, things have
changed slightly since then with a number of different
line up changes and things like that and obviously
5 years have passed since the release of their
debut album and now they are ready to release
their new 8 track album 'Insanity Bound'.
The album opens with 'Blood Soldiers' which has
an introduction that sounds like a war going on
with lots of gun fire and missiles going on, sounding
like the band have spent too many hours playing
Call Of Duty or Ghost Recon on the Xbox, the song
runs well into the 6 minute mark, Jon Sampson's
vocals are strong and really bring in the old
school feel to the band, the dual guitar riffs
are pretty big and heavy sounding. The song starts
off as a really good listen but after about 3
minutes it starts to get repetitive and boring
and drags on for far to long, the only thing that
really saves the song is the riffage half way
through the song which sounds like Colin James
and Darren Macer are having a rock off with each
other.
All of the 8 tracks on the album are worth a
listen as the band are both vocally and instrumentally
talented but I just feel that these guys are lacking
on things, they bring nothing new to the scene,
don’t get me wrong, they try extremely hard
here but I think they try too hard in the way
that most of the songs on the album run well into
the 5 minute mark but tend to get boring and tedious
just after they have been on for 3 minutes, this
would be a really good effort if it came from
a bunch of lads who were just starting off but
sadly it’s these guys second album and I
can’t see the cd being spun in my cd player
again in a hurry.
2/5
Review by Thom
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Jon Sampson (Vocals)
Colin James (Lead, Rythmn Guitar)
Darren Macer (Lead, Rythmn Guitar)
Graham Michael (Bass Guitar)
Paul Skinner (Drums) |
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1. Blood Soldiers
2. Broken Silence
3. Fallin
4. Insanity Bound
5. No Compromise
6. Dorian Gray
7. Dance Of The Lycanthrope
8. A Million Miles |
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| Review
Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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