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mlpamongotherthings:
One day, as I was scrolling through my dashboard on tumblr, I noticed that a band called “Severed Ties” had begun to follow my blog. I visited their blog and found out that they are a four piece “hard rock/heavy metal” band from Birmingham, UK. Hard rock is one of the many genres that I enjoy, so clicked on the link to Bandcamp.com on their blog and downloaded their EP. It’s called Amongst Us All: Volume I.
As the band’s very first release, this EP was really, really, good! At this point, I’ve listened to it all the way through three times. I am definitely looking forward to their next EP release. They have a rather unique sound, mixing grunge and heavy metal with forward driving hard rock elements. Unlike many other, more prominent hard rock bands that I know of, Severed Ties really knows how to keep a good hard rock tune going long enough to satisfy. Some bands dream up these awesome tunes, and then play them for merely a few seconds in a song before moving on. Not so with Severed Ties. When they come across a great hard rock progression, they play the tune long enough for you to really enjoy it. That’s probably one of my favorite things about the band.
I don’t like to compare bands with each other, but if I had to, I would say that they sound like the better elements of Creed and Alter Bridge (If you know about these bands, you’ll know what I mean) mixed together with a lot of originality. Occasionally, there are a few touches of Metallica as well, but these are rare. Overall though, they have a good original sound as a whole, which I like.
The quality sound quality of the music is very good, (especially for a band’s very first EP) though this sometimes comes at the cost of the volume of the vocals. That’s fine though, and here’s why. Some bands, on their first EP or album, focus all their money and effort into making the vocals come out clear and audibly. I think this is a mistake, because then, if they don’t have much money left or some other problem like that, the music is recorded and mixed poorly. This, for me ruins an album. I like the music to be clear and sharp, and Severed Ties accomplishes this well.
I’m not sure why they started to follow my humble blog, (it’s nothing special) but I’m grateful because I’ve found another great hard rock band.
Note: Hard rock is not the only genre that I enjoy. I listen to wide variety of genres, anywhere from instrumental classical piano & violin to heavy/groove metal. Many times though, silence is my favorite music genre. (Silence is beautiful music, and I like listening to it sometimes. It’s one of my favorites, and I like it best alone.) Depends on how I feel. Also, I don’t really plan to post many music reviews on my blog, but this was kind of special because this band actually started following my blog, and because I really liked their EP. I wonder what interested them…
Just…. wow
Thank you so much!
A really cool fair review someone wrote about my band =]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/d90efe36cf601b3e6c649121a1634c41/tumblr_mmk84cz7t21soprypo1_500.jpg)
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