Blackie Wilcox-Such a shame

Self-produced
2008

Taking a risk or a gamble can be a good thing, but knowing your limitations can be helpful as well. Such as recording an album can be a bit of a risk and if you don't have the talent to pull it off then it seems a bit silly. That's close to what we have in this situation. Well, let's go with the positives first because this isn't without some merits. The guitars remind me of Alice Cooper perhaps mainly around the time of Constrictor from 1986. Every song starts out with a decent riff and most are mid-tempo, but fairly heavy. Also the production overall on the disc is alright. The guitars could have come up some, but not bad for a self-produced album. Unfortunately now we have a serious reality check and it's time to face the unpleasant parts of this release. The vocals are, well they're bad and I mean bad in the sense that they should have known better. It's like someone went to a bar on karaoke night and after too many drinks they got up and started trying to be a hard rock singer. Only instead of sleeping it off and going back to the day job lead singer Aaron Morales decided to record it. For some reason the vocals seem to get all of the attention because once they start the guitars get pushed too far into the background. There also needed to be more variation in the music because it is very repetitious. That's a shame because if there is any potential to this project then it's definitely in the guitars. The overall sound tries to be kind of like a sleaze glam style maybe a little like Diamond Rexx, but even rougher. I am not saying that Blackie Wilcox should not have recorded this. However they probably should have recorded it for themselves and then worked to improve on this material before sending it out to the public. Granted they just formed this year so here's hoping they spend more time on working the bugs out before their next release.

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