Review: Song Of Love- Babylon (Single)





It's not every day that you're sent a roughshod demo song to review, and a bit more of a challenge to do so than a finely honed product. Up until now, I have reviewed mainly professional releases, but was asked to do this, and will oblige. 

It's hard to describe Song Of Love, other than an amalgamation of hard rock and metal and progressive, their demo song "Babylon", is actually a charming number, while as rough and imperfectly produced as I described. 
Being a fan of diverse productions like the ones by artists even such as GG Allin or a lot of the more "Necro" Black Metal bands, I can deal with a rough production.

The song is an instrumental. The beginning parts of the song remind me simultaneously of Led Zeppelin but also latter day free jazz influenced Black Flag. It is followed by some progressive Maidenish melodic riffs, with some very odd timings done by the drummer. Then some more odd timed riffs embellish the songs and it picks up pace before going to a full on balladic part. Then it's on to more odd timed riffs, I didn't like this following part because it seemed shoehorned in, but then back to the "chorus" of the song which is admittedly catchy. 

Some soloing then comes in, and this is supported by some very good bass playing. Then it's back to those Flag style riffs again (if there is any doubt by the reader of this comparison, I suggest you listen to the instrumental songs off of Family Man or the Process of Weeding Out).

Then it's onto more classical sounding parts, probably the best part of the song. 

The song ends on that note.

I liked the song. I thought some of the performances could have been tightened up, and for what they were going for, the production could have been as well. 

The instrumental flowed well for the most part though, and I enjoyed where they were going with the song. I like instrumentals and also think instrumentals can really boost a project and also that in the music scene we could use more instrumental projects in general.


Overall, I think this is a promising start to a promising project. Once they get their kinks worked out, I think there is enough creativity to do something spectacular. 

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