I like groups who try to go beyond the standards of the genre by focusing on personality and limiting the stereotypes. New York City-based rockers
Eve To Adam are artists of this kind.
The 4 americans have already 3 full-length albums on their back and they've also performed sold-out tours with arena and stadium level acts such as Daughtry and Motley Crue, in addition to logging in more than 112 performance dates with Saliva, POD, Three Doors Down, The Exies, 12 Stones, Crossfade and more.
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Their third studio album, "Banquet For A Starving Dog", was released last week via 3 For 5 Records, with Universal Distribution, preceded by the single "Run Your Mouth", which you can watch the video here.
Although ETA is a guitar-oriented band with great songwriting skills, I think that their strength is the vocal performance of frontman Taki Sassaris: his slightly husky voice, always warm, intense and soulful, moves perfectly on the wonderful melodic vocal lines, typifying all the songs and contributing significantly to the identity of the band's sound. If every band had a singer with such charisma and ability, the current music scene wouldn't seem a festival of the clone.
Anyway, do not underestimate the partners in crime of Taki, all solid musicians, never predictable in the building of the sonic textures, both in the dark/heavy moments and in the more atmospheric ones.
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"Banquet For A Starving Dog" is a "no fillers just killers" album that is gonna be in my top ten of 2011. Highly recommended!