Thursday, November 17, 2005

60. Fozzy / All That Remains. 2005. 4/5

After two albums that were generally laden with great metal covers, Fozzy got serious, and put out this album full of only originals.

The combined talents of wrestler Chris Jericho and former members of Stuck Mojo have put together a great 'debut' album. Special guests such as Marty Friedman and Zakk Wylde appear here also, but the songs the band has written and performed hold up well.

Nameless Faceless, Enemy, It's A Lie and Born Of Anger are just some of my favourires from the album. It's interesting to see that, despite what could have been made of the 'novelty factor' of a wrestler doing an album, that the success of this has nothing to do with that at all. The songs are good, Jericho's vocals are good, and the whole package comes together well.

Rating : We knew they could play, but they proved a whole lot more with this. 4/5.

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