Christmas came early yesterday as Christian Martucci (Guitarist Stone Sour, Black Star Riders) released his first solo E.P. “Negative Balance”. It features Acey Slade (Dope, Misfits, TrashLight Vision) on bass and Karl Rockfist (Michael Monroe, The Chelsea Smiles) on drums.
“Negative Balance” is a cool metal & punk hybrid, songs “Black Dust” and Give Me Fire” have that in-your-face Motörhead feel to them. “Give Me Fire” grabs you by the nuts and drags you along a strip of burning coals, what a thrill! Lemmy would be proud.
There is a mournful country spiced song “Bad Ghosts” with a Gun Club taste to it, hauntingly beautiful slide guitars sway back and forth on top of a tight country beat.
“Sounds and Silences” gets personal, dealing with depression & suicidal tendencies. Martucci tells us the music and quiet helps to break free of pain, “Keeps the hell at bay” and “Talks me off the ledge”. Powerful stuff that will hopefully inspire lonely and disconnected kids to pick up instruments and make badass rock n’ roll like this.
Martucci’s delivers his lines with frantic raw power and powerful howls. Great riffs, cool solo’s and you can’t go wrong with a drum n’ bass team like Slade & Rockfist. I bet these guys had a blast making this record, I know I’m having a blast listening to it. Definitely hoping there’s more where this came from.
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