Black Tide - Light From Above
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Black Tide
Release Date: 11/02/08
Label: Polydor
Rating: **
With specially re-mastered classics like ‘Warriors Of Time’ and ‘Black Widow’, this is an excellent re-issue of 80’s thrash warriors Black Tide’s seminal 'Light From Above', here in time to teach all the kids how it used to be ... oh... hang on, that’s not right. This is 2008. And Black Tide are a new band.
Excuse our confusion, but when presented with such dated 80’s thrash, you’d be forgiven for assuming this couldn’t have been made before the turn of the century. Sadly, with a thrash revival well on its way, this is well placed to snare in the kids who were barely out of nappies when these riffs were first played. Don’t get us wrong, Black Tide are very skilled musicians with a knack for tying together catchy thrash riffs, but if you’re fifteen or older, you’ll have heard all of this before. Everything from the muted riffs for verses, corny lyrics and squealing leads and solos – the album highlight is a cover of Metallica’s ‘Hit the Lights’ for fucks sake!
With bands like this and Airborne on the rise it’s setting a frightening precedent. Retro music should take lazy nostalgia and enliven it with a fresh twist to make it relevant. If this album had been released twenty years ago it would have been absolutely awesome. But it’s not twenty years ago. It’s 2008, the twentieth century is over, and 'Light From Above' is a tired, dated and uncomfortably cheesy retread of things that have been done before.
Phillip May
Black Tide Myspace
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Release Date: 11/02/08
Label: Polydor
Rating: **
With specially re-mastered classics like ‘Warriors Of Time’ and ‘Black Widow’, this is an excellent re-issue of 80’s thrash warriors Black Tide’s seminal 'Light From Above', here in time to teach all the kids how it used to be ... oh... hang on, that’s not right. This is 2008. And Black Tide are a new band.
Excuse our confusion, but when presented with such dated 80’s thrash, you’d be forgiven for assuming this couldn’t have been made before the turn of the century. Sadly, with a thrash revival well on its way, this is well placed to snare in the kids who were barely out of nappies when these riffs were first played. Don’t get us wrong, Black Tide are very skilled musicians with a knack for tying together catchy thrash riffs, but if you’re fifteen or older, you’ll have heard all of this before. Everything from the muted riffs for verses, corny lyrics and squealing leads and solos – the album highlight is a cover of Metallica’s ‘Hit the Lights’ for fucks sake!
With bands like this and Airborne on the rise it’s setting a frightening precedent. Retro music should take lazy nostalgia and enliven it with a fresh twist to make it relevant. If this album had been released twenty years ago it would have been absolutely awesome. But it’s not twenty years ago. It’s 2008, the twentieth century is over, and 'Light From Above' is a tired, dated and uncomfortably cheesy retread of things that have been done before.
Phillip May
Black Tide Myspace
Buy Black Tide CDs | Buy Black Tide mp3s | Buy Black Tide Tickets | Buy Black Tide Merch
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