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Band:Shadowside Album:Theatre of Shadows Record Company:Chavis Records Writer: Mark Carras Media: MySpace Click Album Cover To Buy Now

So I am listening to this cd and I make a comment about how "this guy lacks any balls at all". Well, it turns out I am partly correct. The singer has no balls all right. It's a chick! My wife called it. My point is still the same though. She sounds like she had had no vocal training at all. She is not using her diaphragm at all and she comes off sounding extremely weak. It's power metal with no power to it! The music is almost as bad. They seem to be doing power metal by numbers and end up sounding like a third rate copy of Helloween. I know of several local bands that play this style better and still do not deserve record contracts. Why this one has one is beyond me. "Queen Of The Sky" has a keyboard sample at the 2 minute mark that makes it sound almost 80's new wave. So now we are mixing Missing Persons with Gamma Ray? The band isn't the worst thing I have heard or anything, but this is pretty bad. Their cover of the classic "Rainbow In The Dark" show both the band's hidden potential as well as their weaknesses. Whereas the original is powerful, Dani's voice sounds thin and weak. All of this can be fixed though.

The scary thing is that the production on this thing is pretty good. The mix is nice and balanced as well. Dani looks pretty hot in most of the photos I can find, so if she can get some voice lessons the band might have a future. Well, maybe that and a good producer. The band seems like they know how to play and the basic song structures are ok, but there are seems to always be at least one element they add to every song that kills the flow they have going. Like one band member can't wrap their head around what is good for the song and the other band members let him have his way to keep things together. A good producer can help those kind of situations out in a way where they are the bad guy instead of pitting band member against band member.

Did this Rock My Monkey? At times yes. As I said before, the musicians can play very well and the songs are written decent. So there were times I caught myself getting into it, so this release is not a total loss. Give her some voice lessons to help her use her diaphragm more and get a top name producer to work with them on the next release and this band could have a big future ahead of them. So while they are not that great now, there is tons of potential.

Band:Shadowside Album:Theatre of Shadows Record Company:Chavis Records Writer: Mark Carras Media: MySpace Click Album Cover To Buy Now

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