{"id":13261,"date":"2014-06-23T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:50","slug":"album-review-gunpowder-gray-gunpowder-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13261","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Gunpowder Gray &#8211; Gunpowder Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13263\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpgrayalbum-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"gpgrayalbum\" width=\"234\" height=\"234\" \/>Gunpowder Gray <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Release Date: April 19, 2014<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Boris Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Living in Atlanta has its ups and downs. The ups being that we get a lot of fucking kick ass shows in this town. The downs being that I dislike\u00a0 just about every fucking band in this town. With the exception of two or three bands tops, no band in this town has really made say, \u201cWow, this is fucking good.\u201d When I was asked to check out the debut album by Gunpowder Gray, my first thought was, \u201cOh no, here we go again.\u201d Well, from the first chord of the opening track \u201cGunpowder Gray\u201d I just crossed my fingers and thought, \u201cPlease let this album be as good as this one song.\u201d Well, luckily it was.<\/p>\n<p>The debut album from Atlanta sleaze rockers Gunpowder Gray is a non-stop full throttle hard rock album that truly blew me away and totally tugged on my little nostalgic heartstrings. Gunpowder Gray totally embodies that feeling and that vibe of bands such as Rhino Bucket and Faster Pussycat with a touch of Southern drawl and swagger ala Tora Tora. That 90\u2019s hard rock sound is something I grew up loving and to this day love hearing when it\u2019s done right and done well. As I listened to this album it was very obvious that Gunpowder Gray truly loves this kind of music.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1818286042\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=765203201\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gunpowdergray.bandcamp.com\/album\/ep\">EP by Gunpowder Gray<\/a><\/iframe><\/center>Songs like \u201cOutta My Way\u201d, \u201cDancing with Death\u201d and \u201cCut Me Out\u201d were the ones that stood out to me but it was the albums closing song \u201cSaints\u201d that I found to be the highlight of the album. This particular song really showed the strength and diversity of lead singer Nate Godbee and could\u2019ve been the best Cult song never written. \u201cSaints\u201d was a great way to close out this album. It was the strongest of a collection of already strong material that left me wanting more. Gunpowder Gray is a solid hard rock band with great songs, catchy hooks, and an honest and sincere delivery. It\u2019s nice to finally find another local Atlanta band that I can be excited about. If this album is of any indication as to where they\u2019re heading, Gunpowder Gray will have a great future. They just need to keep their focus, stick to their guns, and keep it sincere because this is what made me a fan in the first place. I\u2019m sure it will bring them many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunpowder Gray Release Date: April 19, 2014 Boris Records Living in Atlanta has its ups and downs. The ups being that we get a lot of fucking kick ass shows in this town. The downs being that I dislike\u00a0 just about every fucking band in this town. With the exception of two or three bands tops, no band in this town has really made say, \u201cWow, this is fucking good.\u201d When I was asked to check out the debut album [&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":[1167],"class_list":["post-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-gunpowder-gray"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261","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=13261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19762,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions\/19762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}