Review: Adrenechrome – Tales from Adrenechrome

Adrenechrome – Tales from Adrenechrome

At the end of the day, reviews are simply one person’s opinion on the film or piece of music that they are critiquing. But it is also the reviewers responsibility to advise what their readership what to expect.

I say that, because this is one of those genre hopping albums that will appeal to some and not to others. In my case, I find some of the album amazing and other bits bordering on annoying.

The annoying side comes from the sections that veer from the Metal side of the band. Whereas Cheap Trick paid homage to The Beatles on a lot of their melodies, Adrenechrome have a very similar feel to some of Cheap Tricks more poppy bits, but it’s in a quirky, off kilter fashion that does grate on my nerves.

The flipside to that are some of the tunes, which are unbelievable catchy, particularly lead single God Sized Shadow, which stayed in my head for days after I first heard it. And the full on Thrash attack at the start of Lockstep is also a highlight. But the band don’t keep up the intensity and have a tendency to shoot of in a variety of directions. Some heavy, and some to the more (to me anyway) quirky side. I also detect a few moments of Southern rebel rousing that Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet would be proud of. But these tend to be fleeting and don’t stick around too long.

But that is a trademark of this album, flitting from genre to genre and mixing up a multitude of styles that you wouldn’t normally put together. For the most part it works, just now and then, a guitar lead or vocal pattern will annoy me, but the majority of the album is superb… it just depends on your own preferences what you make of it.

So if a thrashier Cheap Trick blended with the slower elements of Soundgarden, fused with a less mellow Baroness floats your boat, give the links below a click or two. Even if it doesn’t, just give God Sized Shadow a spin as it’s one of the best songs of the year so far.

https://adrenechrome.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-adrenechrome
https://www.facebook.com/Adrenechrome