Ok, my dear fan, for your information I do appreciate Hardcore and I do have lots of respect for them bands. I’m not sure if I had told it before but Hardcore played a very important role on the making of Extreme Metal especially when it comes to speed. So, following this very tradition, “Heavy Steps” is fast played. Most tracks are really fast and I have to highlight the especial abilities of drummer Loren Legare who beats really hard and fast showing not only lots of will to beat but also a refined technique. The drums intron he does on tittle track “Heavy Steps” is so great, but so great that it reminded me of “You Could Be Mine” drums intro. Tracks as “Shadow of Doubt” and “Dead on the Fence” made me remind the greatest Crossover band Suicidal Tendencies without the sick guitar solos but wiht the same refined guitar riffing. By the way, “Heavy Steps” is a power house of sick and complex guitar riffing. Take “True to Form” for instance. Killer, just a killer track with all the wraith and fury that Hardcore requires with a Metal complexity and technical instrumental.
“Heavy Steps” proves to me two very important things. The first is that I am right in giving bands two or more chances. One can always be surprised as I was. The second is that I love this job because I wouldn’t know any of those exciting bands I’ve been meeting here otherwise. Comeback Kid are just one of them.
Comeback Kid “Heavy Steps” was released on January 21st via Nuclear Blast Records.
Track Listing:
- Heavy Steps
- No Easy Way Out
- Face the Fire
- Crossed feat. Joe Duplantier
- Everything Relates feat. JJ
- Dead on the Fence
- Shadow of Doubt
- True to Form
- In Between
- Standstill
- Menacing Weight
Watch “Heavy Steps” official video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!