Great starts to all the tracks, great music in general, good backing vocals and good solos – but then it ends.
When the tracks starts for real, I can’t help the feeling that the lead singer is a bad-boy-wannabe, who most of all needs artificial distortion but also some forced-in agony in order to make his voice sound heavy and bad. The way he use the F**-word, makes it sound like it’s only used because his mother don’t want him to.
And that’s sad - because the music is actually very good - as well as original. It makes me think of Guns ‘n Roses in 1989 where Axl, Steven, Slash and Izzy took rock music to a new dimension. These guys could do the same, if they weren’t so focused on having a lead singer who tries to be Axl...
Let the lead singer sing this material with his natural voice without the adopted agony - maybe it fits better, and would make me recommend this material to everybody.
One big do-over on the vocals, and then we’ll hear again. Until then the United Enemies won’t be found on my sound devices.