I purposely tried not to include all of the well known musicians. That makes 100 artists and bands in total. Click here “ YOUR Additions to 50 Modern Blues Rock Soul Artists You Must Hear 2019.“ Between the two articles, you will find 50 additional artists and bands to sample and enjoy. Here is the newer additional article with many of your contributions. Since the writing of the this article, many of you suggested artists and bands that you thought should be included. It doesn’t include all of my favorites because the list would be too long. This isn’t a year-end list of the best albums or songs. This isn’t a top list of the best or worst. These 50 modern blues, rock, and Southern soul artists are some of my personal favorites. Here’s the antidote to today’s popular music. There is an overwhelming number of truly outstanding artists and bands out there now-current recording and performing musicians who are authentic, highly talented, and who release great music. People miss the real musicians, the greats who created their own styles and sounds. They say there aren’t bands or artists today like Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Allman Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Three Kings, and more. There’s something to be said for sticking to your strengths, and Frozen Soul seem fully aware of this.People complain about current pop music because of the lack of soulfulness, a lack of authenticity, manufactured drum beats, compressed auto-tuned vocals and more. While not every song brings the same level of excitement that the aforementioned do, there’s at least not any full-on misfires here either, thankfully, and I’m happy to say that no wholly unnecessary sonic elements (specifically clean singing) have been thrown into the mix for the sake of commercial appeal. That being said, standout songs like the absolutely crushing title track and epic closer “Atomic Winter” stand as some of the best songs Frozen Soul has released to date, and are master class examples of modern death metal in both songwriting and execution. Some of the songs feel somewhat indiscernible due to this and listener fatigue at times sets in by way of everything blending together. There was a hard hitting bite to that material that’s doesn’t feel nearly as present here, and it can sometimes take away from how hard the record hits in general. While there are plenty of moments on this record that sound absolutely HUGE thanks to this and it certainly helps highlight the shift towards more melodic guitarwork, I do find myself missing the more raw, stripped down production of the band’s previous releases. While the general framework of sledgehammer heavy OSDM is still the backbone of Frozen Soul’s sound, there’s clearly a bigger emphasis on variety, both in an injection of vocal variation and the addition of many more melodic moments via a much bigger helping of guitar solos than previous releases from the band.Īlong with this shift towards more dynamics in their songs comes a much cleaner and polished overall sound for this record, which has both its advantages and drawbacks. That widespread appeal is made even broader with co-production from Matt Heafy of Trivum, whose presence can clearly be felt in some of the newer dynamics brought to the table here. With a driving urgency and anthemic nature on display on all of the album’s 10 main songs, it’s easy to see why they’ve had plenty of crossover appeal into other music scenes as well, and could fit just as well on a hardcore festival as they do a fully stacked metal bill. Pulling heavily from the mid-paced, chugging low-end brand of death metal from legendary bands such as Bolt Thrower and Obituary, Frozen Soul aren’t interested in offering something brand new as much as they are paying tribute to one of the heaviest forms of death metal there is - and they do a damn good job executing that here.
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