A full album release from Loaded Billy delivers a thriving and righteous arena rock soundscape complete with amazing riffs and choruses that come through anthemic and powerful all while telling a story at the same time so that the record boasts such thick character that you end up getting attached to a lot of these tracks.
The Legend album has an amazing sonic drive and guitar tone throughout its course, so you get a feel for how the band puts together such an energetic and electric soundscape.
One of the things that actually hits hardest about this track is the band's actual energy. At points, it feels like some of these songs were even recorded live on the floor and anyone involved was just feeding off of each other the entire time.
Even if I'm wrong about the whole live on the floor thing, listening to this record in particular makes you want to see them perform it live in your face simply because if the energy is captured so well on record here then seeing them live must be amazing.
You do indeed get the feel that these guys put on a crazy show and I feel like it's because they have such a perfect sort of classic heavy and hard rock sound.
Not only is all the guitar work super memorable but they also deliver a bunch of hooks musically which is something I've missed in rock music for a long time.
Again, they have outstanding courses throughout this record but I also love guitar hooks. That used to be a staple for hard rock and metal bands all over the place.
I find it quite refreshing that a band like Loaded Billy brings that aspect back to heavy rock music.
This is an album that you should listen to from beginning to end simply because if you listen to one or two tracks you may get a gist of what you can expect but you will not get the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole.
Another reason is that a lot of the songs feel like they are interconnected to the point where this could almost be a concept record of sorts.
Listening to the full album is like an experience. It pulls you away from your surroundings and puts you in these stories and these different places, and it's great to let that happen.
The guitar tones overall are perfect. They're edgy, crunchy, heavy, but not over the top.
The vocal approach is robust and, a lot of times, belting with a passion and soul to them that have as much color as they do edginess so that everything about this record comes through with an almost theatrical undertone.
This, of course, is another classic attribute of hard rock bands of our past.
Having that sort of full-bodied and theatrical approach has always been part of real heavy metal and hard rock music for decades.
These guys manage to bring this back and have it all feel seamless.
This was an album for people who grew up listening to heavy metal, hard rock, and even classic rock on the radio for decades. These guys have all the same aesthetic as your favorite bands do, and listening to this record gave me bouts of nostalgia, to be honest.
I grew up in a time when you heard a song on the radio, and you would go to the store to buy the album.
You would go home, put on the album, and have this full experience.
Even though you bought the album for the one song that you heard on the radio, when you put that album on, it was a whole different animal.
Listening to the Legend album gives me the same feeling in the same vibe.
So, because of things like that too, this was a bit nostalgic.
But I welcomed it. It felt good.
These guys pulled off a massive record with outstanding energy, memorable riffs, anthemic hooks, and choruses, and the whole record is something you need to shake off when you're done listening to it.
A brilliant record from Loaded Billy, have a good long listen to Legend as soon as you can, and again, listen to it loud, and listen to it from beginning to end because it's definitely the best way to do it.
Remember where you heard it first.
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