Slash
Apocalyptic Love
Dik Hayd International
2012
Big fuzz about nothing… how many times have we come to this conclusion when listening to the new work of a well-known band/artist? So much advertising by labels, by big mags… telling this and that… how great this is gonna be… the new rock apocalypse… the best, the super duper… the… the… the… while the result is mediocre at best. So, do some labels & mags have profit over this? Ha… I bet that you all know the answer!
That’s the case here for the new, second, solo album by Slash. Having the vocalist Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge), the bassist Todd Kerns (Age of Electric, Static in Stereo, Sin City Sinners), and the drummer Brent Fitz (Union, Lamya, Vince Neil, Theory of a Deadman, Alice Cooper, Econoline Crush etc.) by his side… he delivers a modern rock & roll album… with alternative and pop melodies & many boring and nothing-to-offer songs. Why’s that? Is Slash a bad guitarist? No, absolutely not… although that has nothing to do with the songwriting and the new things a renowned artist wanna try out.
Just to make it clear for everyone… imagine a new unknown band having released this album… and also having some advertisements saying that this is the new rock & roll album of the year and other things like that. How many people would have got it? How many massive sales would it have? How many “objective” mags would have praised it? Need I say more?! The only song that stands out of this mediocrity is “Anastasia”… which is just good. The sound is big & modern though… thx to producer Eric Valentine (Good Charlotte, Lostprophets, Taking Back Sunday, Nickel Creek, Queens of the Stone Age, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth etc.).
Slash has taken a “tumble down the cliff” quite for a long time now. Obviously, he has nothing new or exceptional to offer… so he keeps delivering things that only a bunch of younger fans can bear to hear… and forget them after a while. If an artist has nothing to offer he must protect himself and speak only when he has something substantial to say. Probably, a re-union with Axl would have worked out well for both of them and could have given them back some of the inspiration they used to have…
That’s the case here for the new, second, solo album by Slash. Having the vocalist Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge), the bassist Todd Kerns (Age of Electric, Static in Stereo, Sin City Sinners), and the drummer Brent Fitz (Union, Lamya, Vince Neil, Theory of a Deadman, Alice Cooper, Econoline Crush etc.) by his side… he delivers a modern rock & roll album… with alternative and pop melodies & many boring and nothing-to-offer songs. Why’s that? Is Slash a bad guitarist? No, absolutely not… although that has nothing to do with the songwriting and the new things a renowned artist wanna try out.
Just to make it clear for everyone… imagine a new unknown band having released this album… and also having some advertisements saying that this is the new rock & roll album of the year and other things like that. How many people would have got it? How many massive sales would it have? How many “objective” mags would have praised it? Need I say more?! The only song that stands out of this mediocrity is “Anastasia”… which is just good. The sound is big & modern though… thx to producer Eric Valentine (Good Charlotte, Lostprophets, Taking Back Sunday, Nickel Creek, Queens of the Stone Age, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth etc.).
Slash has taken a “tumble down the cliff” quite for a long time now. Obviously, he has nothing new or exceptional to offer… so he keeps delivering things that only a bunch of younger fans can bear to hear… and forget them after a while. If an artist has nothing to offer he must protect himself and speak only when he has something substantial to say. Probably, a re-union with Axl would have worked out well for both of them and could have given them back some of the inspiration they used to have…