"Lost in Blue" review

Wheeling High School Newspaper 2008
By Bryan P.


Lost in Blue’s first full-length self-titled album is chock full of face melting guitar licks that will make deadbeat dads across the nation squeeze back into their leather jackets and start head banging all over again.

Forget Avenged Sevenfold and all the other countless non-metal bands that MTV has labeled as metal. Bands like Avenged Sevenfold have forgotten what metal music is all about. It’s not about how cool the band looks in matching black outfits. It’s about the lightning fast rhythm guitar riffs with five-minute solos that made Kirk Hammett, Metallica lead guitarist, so famous. And that is exactly what Lost in Blue provides on this album. The first song, “Lost in Blue,” cuts right to the chase with a great combination of fast rhythm guitars that eventually lead into layered guitar solos that surprisingly don’t get repetitive. This technique of layering guitar solos on top of each other shows not only masterful guitar composition, but also production skill as well.

The awesome guitar shredding carries into the next song “Even You Will Fade,” which is probably the highlight of the album, and then strung through the rest of album. The combination of the sweep picking, a technique among 1980s metal bands, wailing guitar solos and a well-incorporated acoustic breakdown shows Keith’s, guitarist, skill at its best. A very noticeable attribute of Lost in Blue is that the band lacks a vocalist. This works to the band’s advantage as it allows the listeners to focus on the excellent guitar composition that is present throughout the album.

Lost in Blue is able to use it’s musical knowledge to create tones that set distinguishable moods for each song and create an album that doesn’t put the 1980s metal genre to shame.

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