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Weapon X - Behind
These Walls
Issue
#42
Oct.
'02
“Behind These Walls”
by Weapon X
is Old
School Metal of the highest regard. Instantly conjuring up mental Metal
images
of Iron Maiden and Queensryche. The opening title track screams along
with
Martin O’Brien, who carries one of the finest Hard Rock /
Metal vocals to the
heights needed when reproducing the arena dominating music of
Metal’s heyday.
As much as the pounding rhythm section of Max Lopez (bass) and Eric
Setreus
(drums) recalls the indistinguishable sounds of ‘80s Hair
Metal, it also
reaches back to the establishing foundation of the early to mid
‘70s Hard
Rockers. Accenting this point is lead guitarist Vinnie Guarniere, whose
soaring
solos take flight across the decades to have us playing “Name
that guitarist he
sounds like there” – when, in fact, it’s
just Vinnie asserting his control over
the instrument, and the genre as well.
Slickly
professional from its
packaging (dig the graphics by Peter Jivkov) to its sound (kudos to
producer/engineer N.S. “Buck” Brundage),
it’s hard to believe Weapon
X is an
“Indie” band hailing from the Meriden/Wallingford
section of Connecticut.
Whether it’s the Hardedge,
Headbanging crunch of the title track Behind These
Walls, or Mr. Sinister,
Hunter-Killer,
and the anthem-like Thunderstorm (which
could bring the house down at any
arena Metal show), or the radio-friendly, Monster ballads (containing
positive-spin, life-lesson lyrics) like Hearts Get Broken,
Run Through
The Rain, Sometimes Life,
and That’s
Just You (all of which could be
hits with the flick of the
audiences Bic’s), we find the music to be Top notch; full of
the energy and
life that makes Hard Rock and Metal the institutions they rightfully
are.
While
younger enthusiasts will point out
influences and parallels of such Old School Metal staples as Ratt,
Motley Crue,
Scorpions, Cinderella, and Poison (to name a few) – these
aging bones hear
snippets of even Older School Metal such as; Deep Purple, Black
Sabbath, Alice
Cooper, and Bad Company. All of which adds up to a solid CD of Goodtime
Hard
Rock-n-Rollin’ Metal. With Behind These Walls,
Weapon
X produces a sound of artistic merit that simply WAILS!
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