Look Like Hell-Sleeze Beez

So today I'm writing a review of the Sleeze Beez another band suggested to me by my aunt. Before I start I would like to say that Sleeze Beez is possibly he worst band name ever. This album starts out with the track “Girls Girls Nasty Nasty” it features some GNR type sound but it lacks the same quality of Guns n Roses. This is a decent band but not a great one and they produced a good but not great album here. There is a loud and sweaty Sleaze Rock type feel. They sound a bit like Ratt. There is little lyrical significance but here that is not the point. The point is to have some loud and angry 90s heavy metal. Power chords dominate the music and the distortion is dirtier sounding than many other bands.

This is a good album but a dirt gritty one. As in the feel of the atmosphere is a gritty punk/sleaze metal type thing. There is definitely some protest against people traditionally thought of as Rock Gods like Pink Floyd. They pretty much openly mock Floyd in the second track “Party Animals”. This adds to the punk feel. A good way to describe the sound of this album is that they are a bit like the Ramones but with a worst vocalist and dirtier sound with a sleaze metal emphasis. This album is all about buzz, but for me it fails to deliver and is actually kind of disappointing judging from how I thought the album would sound.;

There is little vocal skill however there is some experimentation with an early form of death growling in some tracks. The music is really not that good. It does not deliver to me any sort of buzz. It lacks something that makes you want to headbang to it. It is better than some bands but it is by no means great. The guitar is average at best delivering flashy but unskilled solos. The bass barely comes through and when it does it is mediocre. The drums are rather good though and drive the music very well. Admittedly there are some good riffs but they are not enough to make this album truly awesome and cool.

Overall this is at best an okay album. It shows little technical skill and does not really produce any sort of cool heavy metal vibe. It pretty much fails on that front. It shows some experimentation musically but nothing to special and nothing to make me really love this album If you are into sleaze metal it may be worth a listen but to me they will always be an average band of no great reknown. There is some potential here but it is nothing special and it really does not speak to me or show any great artistry.

OVERALL 5/10

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Iron Butterfly- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Yes that's right. 3 BLOG POSTS IN ONE DAY! That is how dedicated I am right now, later on I'll push some off so savor it while you can. This is a continuation on my series on the origins of metal. Today we are visiting another album which is among the very first in metal. It is not that hard and it almost feels as if the Beatles turned on the distortion. Overall though this is a pretty sick album. There is almost, I guess one might say... a metal pop feel if you know what I mean. When I say pop I mean Beatles style pop FYI. If you listen to the album you'll know what I mean it works for this album I think but it does not seem to show a lot of technical skill.

The genre of this album is very difficult to place but you can definitely get an early metal feel from it. Listening to it you get an idea that Iron Butterfly was like “Well we want to be popular like The Beatles but we also want like to try out this new metal stuff, lets like combine the the two!” High fives all around and this album happened. It works okay but it is not great. The music is very upbeat for metal and gives me the tinglies on the inside just like Maiden's Dance of Death! (Yes Dance of Death gives me the tinglies.) I like it but the musicianship is more of the level of the Beatles (Middlyish) than like Zep or Sabbath.

The musicianship is ok, slightly above average but nothing truly special. The solos are rather weak and show no incredible skill. The upbeatness manages to compensate for some of this. The lyrics are pretty good, but again Beatles-like in tone. It actually fits to a degree, it is very interesting really how this works and so I am wishy-washy about this album. There are no power chords as far as I can tell. The album is not very powerful actually it comes off as rather weak, notice that I said weak not limp. It is not pathetic it just is not very hard. All in all it comes out reasonably well.

This is a reasonable album. It has an interesting sound and is like a harder version of the Beatles. While instrumentation is only slightly above average the lyrics are also kind of meh. It is a good listen though, the brightness of the album gives it a good feel and I like it for that. There is less of the darkness so present in most metal and with kinda happy tones it turns out to be kind of cool. I like it but I don't think it is that good so it does not get to high of a rating. Overall it is a good listen when curious about the origins of metal. It is almost hard to believe that such extremely hard stuff could come from... this.

OVERALL 6.5/10

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