This week, Wikimetal Recommends presents a band for all hard rock lovers: Midnight Waylay , the debut album from Finnish band Gentle Savage .
Formed by Tornado Bearstone (vocals), Jay B (drums), Vance Bead (bass), Tim O'Shore (guitar) and Theo van Boom (keyboards), the band brings together the main elements of the classics of the genre that reached its peak between the 1980s and 1990s.
If you're not a fan of the overly romantic ballads of that era, don't worry: there's nothing but high energy on this album, as the lively tracks "Living It Up" and "UNAMW (You Never Ask Me Why)" clearly demonstrate.
Without necessarily taking listeners on a nostalgic and rigid journey through the hits we grew up with, Gentle Savage relies on frenetic drumming, soaring solos, and Bearstone's vocal flexibility to bring versatility to each track.
Among the highlights is the single “Run Run Poor Boy,” reminiscent of Guns N' Roses with references to blues and psychedelic rock. The band's more introspective side emerges in the excellent “Into the Abyss,” a sign of the band's enormous potential in evoking inspirations from heavy metal, such as Black Sabbath , through its darker atmosphere and heavier guitars, but without losing focus on the style that Gentle Savage has chosen to embrace.
Composed of themes important to the members, the band also grows in "Personal Hades," a narrative about a hopeless character searching for a light at the end of the tunnel in moments of torment. "Hades, here, is used as a metaphor for the mental landscape that exists within each of us when we face a moment of despair," explains the vocalist.
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