"Iron Rain: Sardonic (independent)
I think a lot of our readers still remember IRON RAIN from Eureka, California. Well, theyre back with a great new album, called Sardonic. Its the musical reflection of how they feel after the things that happened in the past few months, no maybe even years. And I can tell you that theyre mad about the whole situation, as it is today. Theyre angry, and the title of the album expresses this in the best way possible. They feel bitter, and they put their bitterness in fifteen tracks that have a total running time of almost sixty-five minutes. Which means that youll get value for money here. Cee and Beigh are the creators of the fifteen anthems on this album, that gives some kind of a reflection of the seventies in a way. The days of JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, THE DOORS, ALICE COOPER, and other bands that played their music in the days of love, peace, flower power and happy music. Their music sometimes grabs back to these days, not intentionally maybe, but the music of IRON RAIN is not just music. Theres a whole vision behind it, and the whole flower power and make love not war concept comes close to the music and the vision on this new album. On the album we hear three instrumental songs and three songs that we know already from their previous album, but now played by a new band. A band that consists of Peggy Ramirez on drums and Sean Ennis on guitar. When I take a look at the cover of this CD, I get this idea, of what theyre trying to say with it. Imperialism (the White House), sinking away in a puddle of mud (literally, and figurative because of the war with Iraq, that didnt do too much good to the American politics for many people worldwide), leaving behind just a very few survivors. (theres only one living person on the CD cover, while on the inside of the CD booklet we can see a lot of cemetaries and graveyards). Maybe I am wrong here, but when you put this deeper vision aside, you will have a great time listening to the great music on this new CD of IRON RAIN. Check out the bands website at: http://www.ironrain.com, or send an email to the band at: info@ironrain.com [8 points] (Toine van Poorten)" [Boldface emphasis by MindscapeFX].