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Castle is a new band from San Francisco who are now releasing their debut album, an interesting peace from the 3-man band. Guitarist Mat Davis do the songwriting, and Elisabeth Blackwell handles the vocals on these 11 songs that has made it to the debut CD. Everybody has to start somewhere, find their style of play, mixing good songs, try to take away weaker songs, and maybe Castle needs a couple of albums to do that, sometimes they sound like an inexperienced school band performing in the local high school, and on other songs they lay out more ambitious songs with harder, darker rhythm that gives evidence of professionalism.
Fire In The Sky is an example of good rock ideas, but Elisabeth Blackwell is holding back the voices like she is not into it completely. Lost Queen have a dark guitar sound, but oozes of high school band that has been put together. Slaves Of The Pharao stands for thunderous sharp massive darkness from the Castle trio, so they have it in them anyway. Total Betrayal is hard rhythm with furious guitar riffs, good aspects of dark metal. Another good song is Butcher Of Los Angeles, here we get a speedy dark outburst to rise the musical value of this album.
But come again, and show us the metal style you want to play in....
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