“I Need You” represents inspired bluesy hard rock heaven and “Finnish What You Started” a varied landscape that touches upon the progressive (what the two have in common is a delectable joining of mellower and heavier moments). “Time Will Tell”, the heaviest of the three, will pull you in with its catchy affinity and display of instrumental prowess. “Take My Life” slugs and mauls its distance to astringent riffs galore, while “Super Heroes” is a non-stop two and a half minute energy burst. Regardless, those whose tastes range from Resurrection Band to Stevie & The Saints to Glenn Kaiser Band are going to find a lot to like here.īeyond The Shadow Of A Doubt opens to three equally good upbeat hard rockers. I find it sufficient to label the group “hard rock”, keeping in mind again the diversity of styles at hand. One reviewer that described Wales Road as: ".riff loaded heavy rock and power ballads to pop-esque ditties to acoustic /electric blues…” had the right idea. Throw in the occasional traditional blues and progressive aspect and the upshot is a band in which a lot is going on musically and that is difficult to pigeonhole as a result. Founded in the mid-nineties by front man Tommy Wales, Wales Road has produced 16 studio albums, 3 live albums and one DVD over an eighteen year span- and counting! Beyond The Shadow Of A Doubt, the most recent from the group, takes a foundation of straightforward hard rock and aligns it with heavy doses of blues based and melodic hard rock. Rochester, New York based Wales Road is one such act. Further complicating matters is the number of bands that transcend style classifications within the various categories at hand. One need consider the myriad choices at hand: Classic and straightforward hard rock, blues based hard rock, melodic hard rock and progressive hard rock among others. Hard rock, similar to the metal and progressive genres, comes in so many differing variations that it can be challenging to commit to just one.
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