{"id":17647,"date":"2018-04-30T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17647"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:22","slug":"album-review-bulletboys-from-out-of-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17647","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: BulletBoys &#8211; From Out of the Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BulletBoys \u2013 From Out of the Skies<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date: March 23, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So the question remains\u2026 does the world in 2018 really need a new Bulletboys album? Before I answer this question, let\u2019s backtrack. Those first two Bulletboys albums (Bulletboys\/Freakshow), in my opinion, are two of the best albums of the era. The Bulletboys were such a great fucking band that kind of had this Van Halen influence but it was the voice of Marq Torien that really set them apart and gave them such a distinct sound. You either loved them or hated them and I fucking loved them. After the band\u2019s third albums Zaza, I lost interest in the band and the band split up.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, while the name Bulletboys hasn\u2019t changed, the band has seen a revolving door of musicians with singer\/songwriter Marq Torien being the only remaining member. Fast forward to 2018. The Bulletboys have released a new album called From Out of the Skies. It\u2019s such a dramatic shift in sound; kind of like when Van Halen went all wussy keyboard lovey songs with Sammy Hagar. It\u2019s just that in this case, this \u201cNu BulletBoys\u201d is so drastically different that I just can\u2019t find a connection to it. While I appreciate a band growing over time, it\u2019s just hard to hear a band like the BulletBoys sound so drastically different. They had a formula and Marq tweaked it. Maybe by losing Mick Sweda the rest of the original lineup has something to do with it but then again, maybe that\u2019s why they bailed.<\/p>\n<p>Musically and creatively I was surprised at songs such as \u201cHi-Fi Dive By\u201d and \u201cLosing End.\u201d The reason I dug these songs is because Bulletboys were never known for being a ballad band and I loved hearing this more mellow side of Marq. The dude\u2019s voice is unbelievably great after all these years and he sounds so full of soul but again, for the most part, it just sounds like a Marq Torien solo album which, in my opinion, is a huge difference from what I would expect from Bulletboys.<\/p>\n<p>When I think of Bulletboys I think of \u201cTHC Groove\u201d, \u201cF#9\u201d, \u201cFreakshow\u201d but yet on this release songs like \u201cD-Evil\u201d, \u201cSucker Punch\u201d, and \u201cWhacha Don\u2019t\u201d I hear an older 80\u2019s generation rocker striving to be the Foo Fighters. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the album is definitely not unlistenable but when I want to listen to the BulletBoys this would be the last album I would go for. As a matter of fact, as soon as I get done with this review I\u2019m popping in Freakshow so I can be reminded of the BulletBoys that I remember and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BulletBoys \u2013 From Out of the Skies Release Date: March 23, 2018 So the question remains\u2026 does the world in 2018 really need a new Bulletboys album? Before I answer this question, let\u2019s backtrack. Those first two Bulletboys albums (Bulletboys\/Freakshow), in my opinion, are two of the best albums of the era. The Bulletboys were such a great fucking band that kind of had this Van Halen influence but it was the voice of Marq Torien that really set them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[904,1277],"class_list":["post-17647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-bulletboys","tag-frontiers-records"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647","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=17647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19641,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647\/revisions\/19641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}