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HARVEST OF
SOULS Formed a couple years ago with Philly-native Brian Sutor, Bulgarian guitarist Emil Natchev and Jersey drummer Tony Cusmano, Harvest of Souls rise from the ashes of late ‘90s arena rock in the vain of Seven Mary Three, Three Doors Down, and even Creed. Packing a hell of a wallop in only three songs these boys know how to pen a catchy ditty and lock it down with bludgeoning guitar. First track in “Who” starts off with Natchev gentle refrain which harkens back to Alex Lifeson’s intro in Rush’s 2112. His picking is clean and electric building to a crunching just before the vocal. Sutor establishes himself as a powerful vocalist embracing the song with a warm baritone yet, packing a punch when he bellows the chorus “Do you think you know my name?, Come and take another look inside”. Drums, vox and guitar grind out a palatable squall equal to FM staples. Just in case you mistake the first four minutes as a fluke “Love Me Hate Me” follows suite drifting back into crescendo writing. The dichotomy of a mellow verse crashing into a wall of guitars each time the chorus hits builds up the impact until is all falls into a fuzzed-out wall of low-end buzz. Unhurried the track leads into the six-minute “Born To Heaven Born To Hell”, a marvelous somewhat lumbering number. Dragging it’s feet in time with Cusmano thump we hear a pop-stoner merge that braces itself for the next coming of desert rock.
by Todd Smith / The
Cutting Edge
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