Epic Fall
Posted September 28, 2009
By IronJedi,
With their distribution partnership with EMI, Arizona-based label VSR continues to grow its roster with the addition of the Phoenix-based hard-rock band Echoes the Fall. Earlier this month, the label debuted the band’s first full-length, nationally distributed project: Bloodlines.
The band’s musicianship is impressive: Massive, distorted guitar riffs, driving percussion and blistering lead licks characterize the majority of Echoes the Fall’s songs. That’s not to say the band is one dimensional: two of the album’s stand-out tracks are the reflective and mature mid-tempo “Dirty Water,” and the closing acoustic reprise of “Things Will Change [This Time Around].” Another track of note is the band’s inclusion of a cover of Survivor’s Rocky III, hit “Eye of the Tiger.” Each original song of Bloodlines is a solid example of how to "do" powerful modern rock, evinces lyrics of a fundamentally sound Christian ethos and has the potential to give the band a high-charting single.
The band’s blend of edgier pop/rock, rock and nü-metal, takes its cues from popular secular alt-rock bands such as The Foo Fighters, Fuel, Linkin Park, and Three Days Grace. In fact, lead singer, and primary lyricist, David Mackey’s rough-edged vocals shine as bright as anything Bennington, Green or Grohl deliver. If there's anything that this reviewer could offer, it would be to suggest that producer Ken Mary add a little less polish to the production, leaving the band's sound a tad edgier.
Fans of Blindside, Chevelle, Pillar and TFK will find plenty of reason to throw up their “rawk fists” with the plethora of potent tracks found on Bloodlines.
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