My God, this will take you back to the days when bands like Deep Purple and Rainbow ruled the hard rock airwaves and gigged relentlessly.
Demon's Eye started life as a DP tribute band, and developed an affinity for the music to the extent that an album of original songs, in the style of their role models, seemed a natural progression.
Such is the quality of the songs that they tempted Doogie White to handle vocals and that speaks volumes.
 
White is clearly at home here - sharp and powerful - capturing the dark and brooding moments just as well as the soaring hard rock hooks.
Kellar's pinging bass and Schneider's walloping drums demonstrate they fully realise that a well oiled engine room is the key to recreating Purple's dramatic, inventive, cultivated adult rock, adding their own flamboyant rock signature to belters like 'Sins Of The Father' and 'Ain't Nothing Better'.
 
Purple ran through the seventies and eighties shoulder to shoulder with Progrock, occasionally jostling with that genre for the best or most interesting musical developments.  'The Best Of Times', a Coverdale/King Crimson hybrid and the mock Floydian 'Evil Comes This Way' show that Demon's Eye's keen sense of awareness didn't stop at pastiching the obvious.
 
Recommended.

Style: Classic Rock

Rating: 7/10

Posted by Brian - Saturday, April 23, 2011



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