Andy James: sacred mother tongue review

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23-04-2009:
Mark McGuigan says:
I’ve been looking forward to this album as Andy James, UK guitar virtuoso and ‘the future of shred’, is now the guitarist in the band. I’m a big fan of his playing and particularly his solo CD ‘In The Wake Of Chaos‘.



I love a good bit of Metal and from the crunching riff on the opening track, ‘The End‘, I was moshing away \m/… albeit in my chair ;).

The album is littered with fantastic riffage and a really tight rhythm section. Particular fave riffs are the main riff to ‘Two Thousand Eight Hundred‘, the double kick assault of ‘The Suffering’ and ‘Numb‘.

Of course we’re talking about Andy James here, no big surprises that, overall, the guitar work on the album is exceptional. From his trademark fast alternate picking licks to those fantastic wide intervallic tapping ideas, it’s all here but all working with the song and band dynamic. The musical ideas and solos here are used to complement the songs rather than dominate. In saying that the album does end with a kick ass instrumental track called ‘Hour Glass‘ which showcases the man’s incredible talents.
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