Review: Durbin - Screaming Steel | |||||||
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Screaming Steel | |||||||
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Label: Frontiers Records Year released: 2024 Duration: 41:15 Tracks: 10 Genre: Heavy Metal Rating: Review online: May 30, 2024 Reviewed by: MetalMike |
Readers' Rating How do you rate this release? Rated 4.2/5 (84%) (5 Votes)
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James Durbin, for whom this band is named, was the fourth-place finisher on season 10 of American Idol and a one-time vocalist for Quiet Riot, so I was unaware of him until Screaming Steel, his eponymous band's second album, showed up in my review queue. His resume notwithstanding, this is a kick-ass collection of early US-style heavy metal with fantastic guitar work, a pounding rhythm section, and Durbin's soaring vocals. Just about every track is an air guitar workout with a catchy chorus on top. "Made of Metal" has a riff reminiscent of early '80s Priest, the vocal lines on "Screaming Steel" had me thinking of Sanctuary, and the lead work on "Hallows" is from the George Lynch school. This might not be the heaviest metal in today's environment of extreme subgenres, but don't be fooled, this isn't some amped up hard rock either, just pure heavy metal. I absolutely would have had a cassette of Screaming Steel in my car and been cranking it on the drive to the local civic center to see Scorpions, Judas Priest, RATT, etc. back in the day. If you grew up with or just dig metal from the time before things started to fragment in a million directions like Dokken, Keel, Riot, Shok Paris, etc. and international counterparts like Priest, Saxon, and Loudness, Durbin is a band you owe to yourself to check out. |
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