Pop Evil, War of Angels
Bombastic, ‘80s-style hard rock, like metal used to be before hardcore and industrial got ahold of it. Scorpions surviving the apocalypse. The order of the tracks makes for for some amusing juxtapositions: the rhyming “Broken & Broken,” “Monster You Made”; the colorscape of “Purple” followed by “Black & Blue.” The band’s name, Pop Evil, does this chugging guitar rock a disservice, but song titles like “Black & Blue” and “Monster You Made” are at least reminiscent of stuff like the Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult tours of the early ‘80s.