UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records label groups are preparing to celebrate the half-century milestone marker for Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame icons, Rush, with the release of the anthology album, Rush 50. It will be available in various formats, and comes out on March 21st. Find out more below.
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Candlebox Drop Their New Deluxe Digital Album “A Little Longer Goodbye (Tour Edition)” – On Tour in North America Soon
Seattle rockers, Candlebox have unveiled A Little Longer Goodbye (Tour Edition), the digital deluxe version of their album The Long Goodbye. It has been released across all DSPs, via Round Hill Records, and features the 12 original album tracks, plus two bonus live songs, “Elegante” and “Cellphone Jesus” (recorded at Club Amanda, Santiago, Chile, October 27, 2023), and the single “Washed Up.” The band are also on tour in North America with Bush and Jerry Cantrell from July 26th. Head into the article below to find out more.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH (Deluxe Edition)
Having a father famous in the same field as you must be a blessing and a curse – being the son of Diego Maradonna, Michael Schumacher, Paul McCartney or Bob Dylan helps get your foot in the door but are hard acts to follow. Eddie Van Halen was the best of the best and after his untimely passing in 2020, his son Wolfgang focused his energies on his solo project Mammoth WVH. His self-titled debut came out a year later, with Wolfgang playing all the instruments himself.
This deluxe edition comes with three extra tracks, the best of which is ‘Talk and Walk’ – a stomping rocker with a smooth, AOR chorus. As for the album, as a whole, it is a decent offering of arena-friendly hard rock, with alternative, Foo Fighters, and Alter Bridge influences. It starts off with ‘Mr. Ed’, a glossy alt-rock bruiser with a sweet chorus and a 4/4 rhythm, a fiery tip of the hat to his dad.
With its seventy-minute runtime you certainly get your money’s worth, from the punchy swagger of ‘Horribly Right’ to the crunchy guitars, short and sweet solo, and thunderous drums of ‘You’ll Be The One’ there is plenty here to like. The best ones are ‘The Big Picture ‘ and ‘You’re To Blame’ – the former is a hefty slab of metal with a pounding riff and a consummately crafted chorus, the latter a sharp alt rocker made for radio with a fiery solo. Not far behind is ‘Feel’ – a lively, Foo Fighters-like track powered with a sprightly drum beat and a restless rhythm.
It is not all thrashing guitars and distortion, he lets his softer and poppier side out occasionally – the lush guitars and the soaring vocal harmonies of ballad ‘Resolve’ offers a sweetly struck bit of variety. Alas the other moments do not quite reach these heights, with ‘Circles’ sounding like a humdrum version of ‘How Soon is Now’ by The Smiths and the polished pop punk of ‘Think It Over” belongs on the soundtrack to some nameless mid ‘00s teen movie.
A mid-’00surs aside, Mammoth WVH (EX1) is a relentless album full of loving made, hard and heavy rockers with a commercial sheen. It is full of attitude and energy, and a big chorus or two, but its length and well-worn stylings means it gets a bit generic at times.
Buy the album here:
https://found.ee/MammothWVHDeluxe
7 / 10
THOMAS THROWER