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Limberlost are an ever-changing band, originating in the Pacific Northwest, but getting around since their inception, playing shows across the country and abroad. Their third release to date, the incendiary (Beautiful Scars) album, set for release in June, reckons to be the most thought-provoking yet, with Sammie Gorham added on twin lead vocals, along with added bass and guitar duties by Steve Unger (Metal Church and Autograph), and son Devin Unger (Sin Circus Band). And retaining writing partners, Brittany Lauren-Smith on vocals, and Mike Burt on drums and Anthony Ciarochi on keys, to round out the new line-up.
This album plays out like a full-on progressive concept record coming out of nowhere with blistering songs about an assortment of modern situated themes, and once you wrap your head around it, you simply can’t get enough. The ferocious opening track and lead single “Alien,” starts the story off in grand fashion with all the intensity of a modern hard rock masterclass, and if you’ve heard their previous work you’ll instantly be taken as far from the planet as it gets, and be dropped back down to earth by the time it’s over. This band have toured abroad as openers on the Yngwie Malmsteen 2023 European tour, just for one example of their travels.
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This is no ordinary album, it’s truly a banger of mass proportion, as they go right into “Playing Games” without hesitating to kick ass and take names. You can tell it’s going to be about something as the tracks burn in succession all the way to the bittersweet end, with Britanny Lauren-Smith arriving on these killer cuts, as the lyrics clearly indicate some experience has happened along the way of their saga.
You feel like you’re on the journey with them, as they blaze through “Buried” and that’s exactly what you’ll be once you hear it. You’ll also feel lonely and cold as “Alone” reminisces of previously released tracks like “Good Fight,” but with more of an edge around the reappearing piano chords, and the guitars coming alive as they interplay together around the vocals. You’re hooked by the time the album goes into the epic “Let Me Go” which clearly shows even more of what’s been going on in the world of socio-political culture’s virtual unsureness. This song has “hit record” written all over it, but it’s not the only one, as it contains no fillers in sight.
The concept carries on with “The Me I’m Afraid Of” with its shock absorbing hooks and over the top story about growth in the crazy world of challenges we all face, and the facades that come with it that we should all drop. “Man On The Run,” also fights for hit power as it drives like a freight train through your brain, leaving you battered and begging for more, before the groovy pop wonder of “Velvet & Venom” carries things into the eclectic “Blood & Bone” with even more of the same chops. The whole thing and with the impossible to dismiss “Beautiful Scars,” as it takes you back for listening round after round.
Mindy McCall
