Hi there,

-We just received reports that a new review of CAROLINE BLUE's "Slave
to the Hourglass" has just been posted at the Encyclopaedia Metallium
Website by Muloc of the U.K.! Click http://www.metal-
archives.com/review.php?id=160705#53285 to check it out.

-For those who can't wait to read it :)

I'm a slave to the hourglass! - 75% Written by Muloc7253 on April
3rd, 2008

Seeing as I've been sent a lot of modern deathcore and whatnot the
last few weeks, it was refreshing to pop Caroline Blue's debut
EP 'Slave to the Hourglass' into my cd player and have my ears
greeted with some excellent hard rockin' 80s heavy metal.

And the great thing about Caroline Blue is how aware of themselves
they are. There is no pretensiousness or silly gimmicks here, nor is
this a Darkness/Wig Wam attempt at resurrecting as many silly cliches
from the 80s and 70s as possible (even though I do like both of those
bands). These guys just take a simple structure, some good catchy
rocking riffs and good but not pretensious vocals to belt out some
cool, powerful classic metal songs. On top of that they have some
excellent solos, nothing ridiculously technical, just enough to give
the songs a bit more juice.

Structurely this is about as typical as traditional metal can be, but
that's partly what's so good about it. A composition-style that I'm
familiar with and enjoy a lot, used to create some excellently catchy
and addictive rock/metal songs. My choice cuts would be the slightly
epic opening title track, 'Hard Life' (which funnily enough, slightly
reminds me of 'A Hard Day's Night' in the chorus) and 'The Queen of
Pleasure'.

Oh yeah, and there are some bonus tracks. The first is a pretty nice
guitar instrumental, I could live without it but it's still a pretty
decent addition, and then next is a recorded message from what sounds
like a landlord informing the band that the neighbours have been
complaining about late-night loud drums and one of the band members
humping a stuffed animal in the window. My kind of band!


-Let us know what you think!