{"id":13148,"date":"2014-05-30T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13148"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:50","slug":"album-review-grayson-manor-return-to-the-manor-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13148","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Grayson Manor &#8211;  Return to the Manor (Single)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13149\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GM-Return-to-the-Manor-front-web2-300x300.png\" alt=\"GM-Return-to-the-Manor-front-web2\" width=\"254\" height=\"254\" \/>Grayson Manor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Return to the Manor (Single)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What can I say about Grayson Manor? Every now and then a band comes around that completely has my mouth hanging open in utter disbelief and leaving me completely speechless. I hope the band will use that last sentence in their press release before others can see that when I say that, it\u2019s not a good thing. My first question after hearing the debut song \u201cShake Me\u201d was \u201cIs this for real?\u201d I couldn\u2019t figure out if this was a joke or if this was something serious and to my surprise, I found out that this Atlanta based band is all too serious and for real. \u201cShake Me\u201d started out musically sounding kind of cool but it was like a rehashed Guns N\u2019 Roses groove with Warrant background vocals and that tool from Firehouse singing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny because I am actually a fan of that kind of sleazy, glam hard rock\/metal but Grayson Manor just managed to take elements of the absolute worst bands of the genre and combine them in to one really eye rolling, cringe worthy glam band. I mean, \u201cI\u2019m Still Here\u201d sounds like the worst glam ballad of all time, \u201cI Hate Kissing You Goodbye\u201d by Tuff mixed with Warrant\u2019s \u201cI Saw Red.\u201d Again, I feel like these guys just dipped into the worst glam metal bands of all time and just ran with it. Those bands sucked the first time around and combining them all into one band 20 something years later just makes it sound that much more ridiculous. The third song \u201cBye Bye Love\u201d actually has a pretty great riff going for it but again, those Warrant \u201cgang\u201d vocals and those horrible lyrics just don\u2019t do much to plead their case. Uh oh, the singer just whistled and cat called in the middle of the song.<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty, Grayson Manor really doesn\u2019t suck, they\u2019re just not original and they don\u2019t have any good songs. If these guys would\u2019ve come out 20 something years ago they would\u2019ve had a great home in the cut out bargain bin along with bands like Wildside and Baton Rouge. The players are all really talented dudes but it\u2019s so wasted playing this 5<sup>th<\/sup> rate glam metal. If they are looking to break ground and really wow old jaded metal dudes like me, they have a long way to go to even get me to feel the slightest bit impressed. I\u2019m sure these guys are a great, fun live band to see while slamming some PBRs waiting for your favorite bands from back in the day that have 2 original members left in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grayson Manor Return to the Manor (Single) What can I say about Grayson Manor? Every now and then a band comes around that completely has my mouth hanging open in utter disbelief and leaving me completely speechless. I hope the band will use that last sentence in their press release before others can see that when I say that, it\u2019s not a good thing. My first question after hearing the debut song \u201cShake Me\u201d was \u201cIs this for real?\u201d I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1162],"class_list":["post-13148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-grayson-manor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19765,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148\/revisions\/19765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}