Sociedad Enferma - Arai

Description: Artist: Arai / Genre: Pop & Rock

Newest Review: ... some of the classic heavy metal charm, the medium pace and lack of any real punch in the guitars and drums makes the whole ... more

... performance sound quite bored. The only song to possess a slightly faster tempo is the opening title track, which introduces the style carried through the rest of the album: reasonably good, simplistic guitar riffs repeated ad nauseam, with some nice twin lead guitar work from Zorrilla and Gerson Martinez. To the E.P.'s credit, each song does follow a slightly different style (which only makes it all the more disappointing when they all end up merging together), the first being more in line with heavier speed metal,...more

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Sociedad Enferma - Arai: Zorrilla's in Their Midst (354 words)
by - written on 25/01/08 (Very useful, 20 readings)
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This is so far the only release from Spanish old-school heavy metal band Arai and is available for download for free from several places on the internet, which is always nice, but on a purely qualitative side of things I can't rate it too highly. These songs are relatively enjoyable but uninspired and repetitive to the point of tedium, especially earlier in the album, and although the instruments and especially Marcos Zorrilla's vocals do capture some of the classic heavy metal charm, the medium pace and lack of any real punch in the guitars and drums makes the whole performance sound quite bored. The only song to possess a slightly faster tempo is the opening ... Read the complete review