A Killer Hard Rock band I've been following.

[Fret-Shredder]

This guy can freaking sing!!! Its great discovering new young talent like this. His band ANIMAL DRIVE is pretty damn impressive. Direct from CROATIA!!! Enjoy.

ANIMAL DRIVE:

The singers Tribute to DIO:

The singers Tribute to Ray Gillen:

 

[japetus]

The singer looks like Varg Vikernes when he was young.

 

[Beandust]

Damn right!! Thanks for posting. Dig it

 

[2prog4u]

Dude has pipes! Sadly...born 30 years too late...

 

[JTyson]

This guy can freaking sing!!! Its great discovering new young talent like this. His band ANIMAL DRIVE is pretty damn impressive. Direct from CROATIA!!! Enjoy.

ANIMAL DRIVE:

The singers Tribute to DIO:

The singers Tribute to Ray Gillen:

Holy shit!!!
That guy is without a doubt the best current lead singer Ive heard to date. His vocals on the Badlands song "Last Time" were amazing
Im in

 

[Thunkful]

Too modern sounding to my taste. This is the exact reason i struggle to find new artists to listen.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Seen this guy before.. amazing pipes and good band. I agree though, too modern of a production. All the ooomph is gone when you have sampled drums and modern editing. Would be nice to hear a rawer version of all of it.

 

[MetalHeadMike]

I thought the Dio tribute was decent.

 

[Monkey Man]

Yeah I've heard him before, and he sure can sing.

For me 'though, there's something sterile about the recordings, as if they should've been made in the late '80s. More cock-rock / glam metal / zebra-pants metal / hair metal mojo needed IMHO... a lot more.

Thanks for sharing, man.

 

[Thunkful]

Seen this guy before.. amazing pipes and good band. I agree though, too modern of a production. All the ooomph is gone when you have sampled drums and modern editing. Would be nice to hear a rawer version of all of it.

This. Tho i think that even samples and drum machines in the 80's were utilized better. Shawn Lane's Powers of Ten album from 1992 had programmed drums and i still enjoy that album's atmosphere highly.

 

[nigelpkay]

Great voice but I couldn’t get through the original tunes, generic modern rock that didn’t stay with me at all. Find that with a lot of modern rock bands, they have all the tools except the songwriting. Nathan James and Inglorious is another example.

I more prefer the classic rock types such as Black Country Communion and Greta Van Fleet for new (old) rock.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Seen this guy before.. amazing pipes and good band. I agree though, too modern of a production. All the ooomph is gone when you have sampled drums and modern editing. Would be nice to hear a rawer version of all of it.

This. Tho i think that even samples and drum machines in the 80's were utilized better. Shawn Lane's Powers of Ten album from 1992 had programmed drums and i still enjoy that album's atmosphere highly.

True. So was the Eye by King Diamond and I love that album. I don't know what it is with today's production but it almost sounds like you have the performance in raw form and then you layer over every instrument with something out of the box.

 

[Monkey Man]

I'll tell ya what it is, mate:

The dynamics (to a great extent), uniqueness, vibe, mojo and soul have been squeezed out of it 'til it's within an inch of its death.

All the little anomalies that add up to / contribute to making something unique are edited out as the individual tracks are homogenised, quantised, pasteurised... OK, maybe not pasteurised, but you get the idea; the effect is the same. You know what happens when you pasteurise milk, don't you? You kill all the enzymatic life out of it at 130ºC. Same thing happens to modern music on-the-whole - no friggin' life left.

If music is boring / dull / repetitive / predictable, it has no life, simple as that to me. I could be wrong of course, and everyone's MMV.

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

Dino is probably one of the Top HR vocalists right now....He almost sings without effort. Was definitely given a gift.

 

[Fret-Shredder]

I'll tell ya what it is, mate:

The dynamics (to a great extent), uniqueness, vibe, mojo and soul have been squeezed out of it 'til it's within an inch of its death.

All the little anomalies that add up to / contribute to making something unique are edited out as the individual tracks are homogenised, quantised, pasteurised... OK, maybe not pasteurised, but you get the idea; the effect is the same. You know what happens when you pasteurise milk, don't you? You kill all the enzymatic life out of it at 130ºC. Same thing happens to modern music on-the-whole - no friggin' life left.

If music is boring / dull / repetitive / predictable, it has no life, simple as that to me. I could be wrong of course, and everyone's MMV.

Damn dude. You are over thinking your music. Just turn it up and rock out for a change

 

[Monkey Man]

Well bud, that's actually kinda what I'm sayin'.

The trouble with modern-digital technology is it gives engineers the ability to remove all those little inconsistencies in timing, pitch and so on from the individual tracks. When you then mix them all together, instead of getting a smorgasbord of "human randomness", you end up with what I'd call cookie-cutter drivel. The brain finds this shit boring. OTOH, it loves unpredictability and "organic randomness" such as we hear in typical recordings before they've had the bejeezus squeezed out of them.

Maybe it's the old-school engineer in me, but that's all I was tryin' to say at any rate. Probably didn't need to go into the milk-pasteurisation thing.

As for the band and singer, the relevance here is that some of us wish they'd been recorded and mixed "old-school", hence my rant. Imagine how much better it'd be with some serious mojo mixed into the fold.

 

[Fret-Shredder]

Well bud, that's actually kinda what I'm sayin'.

The trouble with modern-digital technology is it gives engineers the ability to remove all those little inconsistencies in timing, pitch and so on from the individual tracks. When you then mix them all together, instead of getting a smorgasbord of "human randomness", you end up with what I'd call cookie-cutter drivel. The brain finds this shit boring. OTOH, it loves unpredictability and "organic randomness" such as we hear in typical recordings before they've had the bejeezus squeezed out of them.

Maybe it's the old-school engineer in me, but that's all I was tryin' to say at any rate. Probably didn't need to go into the milk-pasteurisation thing.

As for the band and singer, the relevance here is that some of us wish they'd been recorded and mixed "old-school", hence my rant. Imagine how much better it'd be with some serious mojo mixed into the fold.

I understand what you are saying. No worries. I appreciate the input. Cheers.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I'll tell ya what it is, mate:

The dynamics (to a great extent), uniqueness, vibe, mojo and soul have been squeezed out of it 'til it's within an inch of its death.

All the little anomalies that add up to / contribute to making something unique are edited out as the individual tracks are homogenised, quantised, pasteurised... OK, maybe not pasteurised, but you get the idea; the effect is the same. You know what happens when you pasteurise milk, don't you? You kill all the enzymatic life out of it at 130ºC. Same thing happens to modern music on-the-whole - no friggin' life left.

If music is boring / dull / repetitive / predictable, it has no life, simple as that to me. I could be wrong of course, and everyone's MMV.

True, if you listen to the isolated tracks from older bands in the 70's and early 80's, even later, you can hear the mistakes left in. Pick slides, a bad note, a little out of time etc. Everything now can be cut and pasted to the grid so much that you can randomly cut up parts from any song and stick them back on the grid and it will all sound in time. It's nuts. Truly sad.

 

[Monkey Man]

Yup. I can't think of any way to turn back the clock either. Folks are so Hell-bent on the idea that perfection means "pristine" when it comes to recorded tracks, I don't see a way to change their minds. Perceived peer pressure would have them pasteurise every damned mix element in pursuit of this "perfection".

Well bud, that's actually kinda what I'm sayin'.

The trouble with modern-digital technology is it gives engineers the ability to remove all those little inconsistencies in timing, pitch and so on from the individual tracks. When you then mix them all together, instead of getting a smorgasbord of "human randomness", you end up with what I'd call cookie-cutter drivel. The brain finds this shit boring. OTOH, it loves unpredictability and "organic randomness" such as we hear in typical recordings before they've had the bejeezus squeezed out of them.

Maybe it's the old-school engineer in me, but that's all I was tryin' to say at any rate. Probably didn't need to go into the milk-pasteurisation thing.

As for the band and singer, the relevance here is that some of us wish they'd been recorded and mixed "old-school", hence my rant. Imagine how much better it'd be with some serious mojo mixed into the fold.

I understand what you are saying. No worries. I appreciate the input. Cheers.

Oh man, I'm feeling bad now, brother. I took nothing away from those dudes with my comments; it's the engineer's fault!

 

[sytharnia1560]

Damn dude. You are over thinking your music. Just turn it up and rock out for a change

it's a bit hard to do that when the music lacks a little bit of "life" because of the production .... same goes for some albums from yesteryear that had out right bad production (Killing is my Business as a perfect example for me)

Personally I think the drums on this are the main problem. They are so "perfect" they sound robotic which instantly takes away any feel and vibe. The music doesn't breath to my ears so that does not inspire me to listen to it at all

It had the potential to be great but sadly was only ok....having said that i'm sure they would absolutely KILL live