Anthem for the Underdog

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-11-01 rating:
Oh, dear
Anthem for the Underdog has gone the same way as Crossfade's second album. Gone are the power riffs and beautiful vocal screams, and have been replaced by an album consisting of churned out love songs. you know the ones; "I'm in pain, haven't slept in years because of you, but it's slowly getting better.."

Very, very dissapointing seeing as their first and second albums were so good. It's hard to believe they're the same band.

They get 2 stars due to their (wasted in this album) talent. All I can hope is that the band's going through some "relationship issues" and they'll get this terrible sound out of their system with this release.

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review by: thePHILosipher date: 2008-08-25 rating:
Amazing New Sound For 12 Stones
with their 3rd album i do believe that 12 stones have matured for the better. Thier 1st couple albums where (all be it very good) thrash, but with the new guitarist it does seem to be that they have decided to use their ability as musicians and produce and truely fantastic album.

Broken road is an absolute belter and probably the best track that they have released in current times.

A must buy albums you'll love it.

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review by: date: 2007-09-30 rating:
Good modern hard rock becomes weak radio-rock-by-numbers
The word "sellout" gets thrown around a lot, and most of the time it's a ridiculous thing to say. But when a very promising hard rock band with two albums full of great riffs turns out something which is, as my review title says, radio-rock-by-numbers, which sounds identical to countless other bands when previously they had their own identity, what other word is applicable?

All the riffs are gone. Where both the self-titled debut and "Potter's Field" had some monumental groove and great choruses, this just has nothing. If any two of the tracks here, and it wouldn't really matter which two, were used as filler on one of the previous two albums, it would be too many.

If you liked the first two records for the big Creed/Godsmack-style riffs and genuine hard rock attitude, you will not like this one. You will notice that all the positive reviews are from people who are happy with the change. Fair enough, they're radio rock fans. That's cool. But 12 Stones were not a radio rock band, so this is a disappointment.

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review by: date: 2007-09-24 rating:
The radio-friendly release
12 Stones' third album is their best sounding yet. The recruitment of a new guitarist and producer has enabled them to work out their best sound and create radio-friendly songs that you can sing along to.

Singer Paul McCoy shows off a great vocal range, where the previous efforts had been slightly monotonous. Just compare his laidback sounds in the verses of Hey Love and its softness in the acoustic version of Lie To Me with the aggression of Games You Play. There is no screaming as was present on the previous two albums though.

The songs together have a good variation in pace. Starting with the mid-tempo title track, speeding up with Adrenaline and then slowing down for emotional songs like World So Cold and Arms of A Stranger. This makes it easy to listen all the way through, which I found difficult with their previous CD. The only track I tend to skip on here is Games You Play, which is too heavy for my liking.

One final thing about lyrics. 12 Stones is often incorrectly referred to as a Christian Band, based on the possible religious interpretations of songs on their debut. You may or may not be glad to know that, apart from the track It Was You, it is difficult to see how the songs could be talking to or about God.

My complaint with the CD is that it's short, with only 10 tracks if you count the two versions of Lie To Me as one song. A different track was originally to close the album, a shame this was changed. Also, a couple of the songs sound a bit like hits from other artists.

If you are already a fan of 12 Stones, you may or may not be letdown with this "sell-out" sound. If you are not familiar with them, it might be worth checking out their previous releases to hear their original sound.





review by: richanddawn date: 2007-07-30 rating:
12 stones changed for the better
This album is simply perfect very consistent but also adventurous broken road, it was u, being some of the highlights as well as the amazing lie to me best album yet buy it help this band to the top

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