13 Stairway: The Children of the Night - Balzac

Balzac's third album is disappointing for two major reasons: firstly, the band opts for an irritating, overly happy direction confined to this particular album that makes it less effective as a horror punk release, and secondly because there's not a lot to it. Seriously, eight songs and only twenty-three minutes for a full-length release? That's just plain lazy. The good news is that Balzac is continuing to move its sound forwards, even when the direction doesn't end up working that well, and as well as being their overly jovial album, this is also their most industrial, thanks to the distorted riffs of opener 'Atomic-Age' and particularly 'Legacy II' with its ...  Read the complete review