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Album Review: Lord - Set In Stone
Review by Danny Crombie - October 19, 2009
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The inside of the booklet smells like a porn-mag you'd found in the woods when you were 12... I don't know if Lord are looking to create whole spectrum nostalgia with their art or it's just me concocting crap once again.
From the get-go the music is extremely like neo-classical Iron Maiden or Judas Priest but with the smoothness of digital production. I'm really no fan of this kind of music but the solos are hard to not appreciate as I feel my face melting just from being in their sheer audible presence.
At times the songs hit an 80's hair metal point in their choruses which is pretty different, songs like 100 Reason and Beyond the Lights are easy to sing along to and remind you of Van Halen at times - and those guys were brilliant so don't scoff.
This is guitar metal for guys who like playing X-Box and do well at school which isn't a bad thing in my eyes. It's a bit like a legitimate alternative to Dragonforce, whose lyrical content seems questionable at times but still have an extremely loyal fanbase.
All the songs on this record are epic and there's not one bit of filler on the record at all. This album is already something the band can be extremely proud of and the fact I'm getting a full jewel case CD shows the pure effort and enthusiasm into this release. They sound like ordinary and genuine guys and you can see this in the amount of thanks they give at the back of the liner notes - drummer Tim Yatras gives a no thanks to his old neighbours Tracey and Ian - haha, shamed! (Incidentally, Yatras is no longer in Lord having left the band just after recording was finished on this album.)
The album is being hailed as the Australian metal album of the year, as audacious as it sounds this is probably true and like Airbourne last year they seem set to take the world by storm.
© Danny Crombie
