Review: Dead Man’s Wake. It Comes To This. By Brian Kirst
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Like a thousand Goth girls stomp-dancing, gleefully, through their black bedrooms or a horde of seductive zombie acolytes thrumming, wistfully, against your door, Dead Mans Wake’s new CD, It Comes To This, is a bloody, angst ridden, metal-pop delight.
From the ironic, highly hummable chorus of “Back to Blood” to the Jefferson Airplane like acoustic bonus track, “Homeless”, this CD pops with Kryssie Ridolfi’s sharp, multi-leveled vocals and the frightfully clean, completely on-target instrumentation of JP Soule, Josh Barker, Troll and Kip Kebles.
Like a muscular Lita Ford number from the mid 80’s, star track “Far Be It From Me” is a dead on shot at life’s peculiarities – relationship and otherwise, while other tracks, like speed driven “Flowers (Stand Between Us)”, read like stone hard diary entries from a love affair on the fritz.
Featuring glorious production work from the band and Jason Walsh, It Comes To This ultimately features a band on the verge of big things, being magnetically led by a singer whose voice could ignite the souls of even the most mold ridden corpses in grandma’s graveyard hall of fame. “Would you be my partner in crime,” Ridolfi moans meaningfully at one point- well, yes, Kryssie! Hell, yes!
