Former Eighteen Visions’ singer releases one of the best rock albums of the decade
For anyone familiar with Eighteen Visions’ final, eponymous album, Burn Halo’s sound will come as a pleasant surprise. This is a straight-up rock album, with none of the emo or hardcore posing of Eighteen Visions. Songs like “Too Late To Tell You Now” and “Dead End Roads & Lost Highways” easily fit alongside songs by such bands as Shinedown, Black Stone Cherry, Foo Fighters and other more commercial rock acts. “So Addicted” has a snotty, punk-rock snarl throughout, reminiscent of Buckcherry or Papa Roach, and maybe Dope at their more commercial. This is not to say that Burn Halo are carbon-copies of the above bands; far from it. The band clearly have their own sound, and while James Hart’s vocals are still reminiscent of his previous work (though leagues ahead in terms of quality and variation), overall the music has more in common with Guns ‘N’ Roses, recent Avenged Sevenfold, and perhaps even Aerosmith than his previous cohorts in the emo/hardcore scenes. For this reason, this is one of the best albums recent in quite some time.
If you’re put off by the reference-heavy nature of this review, don’t be. Burn Halo are their own band, and their sound is their own, but the varied-yet-consistent quality of the songs allows them to mix with a broad spectrum of other contemporary rock acts, and should give them a massive appeal to the wider community of rock fans the world over.
In four words: Superb, addictive, original, essential.
A must for fans of: Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Avenged Sevenfold (post-City of Evil), Guns ‘N’ Roses
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