Seven Witches
The Way of the Wicked
ILS
2015
While I had presumed that Seven Witches are no more, I must say, since it’s been a while since I’ve heard anything about them and that was at around the time when they could not decide either to go it with Alan Techio or James Rivera.
I was pretty surprised to find out that they were still going on, and had actually released another album with their current lineup. Now this is their tenth release and while the band had the odd, decent song here and there, they were never a “great” band. While Frost ain’t a bad player, he’s at the very least a mediocre songwriter. With most of the songs, chugging along, pretty much non-descript and not far too different from each other… despite JF’s valiant efforts on the guitar front… the current vocalist, a guy named, Anthony Cross (apparently a pseudonym) has a dry vocal timbre and not the greatest range, so he ends up sounding like a much hoarser Paul Stanley mixed with some James Hetfield in a way.
Although the occasional riff or solo seems promising, the overall result seems to be trialing behind neither “modern” or “old school” enough to convince. “Dreams” is probably the “better song” on the album and one I kept listening over and over when going back to this… given that the band has done some pretty poor albums with Techio, this ain’t too bad, but this does’'t make it good either.
I was pretty surprised to find out that they were still going on, and had actually released another album with their current lineup. Now this is their tenth release and while the band had the odd, decent song here and there, they were never a “great” band. While Frost ain’t a bad player, he’s at the very least a mediocre songwriter. With most of the songs, chugging along, pretty much non-descript and not far too different from each other… despite JF’s valiant efforts on the guitar front… the current vocalist, a guy named, Anthony Cross (apparently a pseudonym) has a dry vocal timbre and not the greatest range, so he ends up sounding like a much hoarser Paul Stanley mixed with some James Hetfield in a way.
Although the occasional riff or solo seems promising, the overall result seems to be trialing behind neither “modern” or “old school” enough to convince. “Dreams” is probably the “better song” on the album and one I kept listening over and over when going back to this… given that the band has done some pretty poor albums with Techio, this ain’t too bad, but this does’'t make it good either.