Smash Alley Underground

"Rising from the Shadow's"

  1. "Back Alley Shadows" (4:34)
  2. "Execution Time" (3:43)
  3. "Long Shot Gamble" (4:49)
  4. "Ride the Clouds" (4:53)
  5. "Never Suicide" (5:10)
  6. "Morning Starlight" (5:33)
  7. "Picture in My Head" (4:13)
  8. "Running in Circles" (4:01)
  9. "Make Your Move" (5:42)
  10. "Hot Rod Cruiser" (5:33)
  11. "Chased by the Enemy"--instrumental (5:30)

Yet another Christian metal band, although you really can't tell unless you read the lyrics to "Morning Starlight" and a couple other songs. This CD is very demo-ish in quality, with the liner notes printed on plain paper, and dear God they should have consulted a proofreader before releasing it -- that extraneous apostrophe in the album title hurts my eyes!! (Unless it was supposed to be called "Rising from the Shadow's Night" but they ran out of space.) The music is very slow and somewhat bluesy, far too generic and boring to hold my interest, although the songs "Never Suicide" and "Make Your Move" do have some catchy hooks, and the closing instrumental does thrash things up a bit. Whatever, it was sent to me for free so I have no right to complain...

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