Album Review

Breed 77 - The Evil InsideBreed 77 – The Evil Inside

My God how long have we been kept waiting! Seeing as its 2013 and the last release from these Gibraltarian greats was in 2009, that’s 4 years! If I hadn’t seen them in 2012 with Ill Nino and then 2013 with SOiL and Fozzy then I would have thought they’d split up! Now back to the point, Insects from 2009 was a tremendous release with the title track that was ripe with exotic sounds and raw power that buzzed around in the ol’ noodle for years that I still know every word for to this day. It’s great to have connected with them now as back in 2006 when I saw them support Ill Nino the first time I completely ignored their existence, but now I adore them and even my girlfriend walks around singing their cover of “Zombies” all the time. Now having heard that since this albums release in March, lead vocalist Paul Isola has left the band after serving as the bands lead vocalist for the last 17 years, this has filled me with a great deal of sadness and I hope this album will reflect on his legacy with the band.

I’ve chilled out and let the thing spin round a fair few times now and am ready to give my verdict; the album on a whole is great, it’s less on the aggressive self which I wouldn’t normally say is a good thing but with Breed 77 whilst the other albums have had a degree of aggression present throughout they’ve always been ones to show a vast range in style and this right here with songs like “Low”, “Broken Pieces” and “Drown” really pay tribute to the extensive vocal range that Isola possesses. I personally have a big connection with the second half of the album more than the first, it’s all fantastic but I feel the likes of “Higher” and “Face” really steal my heart simply due to the melodies, they just really draw you in with their sweet tones.

This brings my review to an end and I am more than satisfied with what I have heard here and I do feel that this is a fitting end to an era, the era of Paul Isola and he can be proud of everything he helped this band to accomplish. Whilst I hope they have the best of luck with their new singer for me this band will never be the same to me again, changing a voice is so hard to do and the longer a person fronts a band the less likely they are to cross a new one over. That being said they’ve had a bit of a low following here in recent years so maybe this will be a new beginning? Time will tell.

4/5

Review by James Webb

 Band Members

Rui Lopez
Danny Felice
Stuart Cavilla
Pedro Caparros López
Andre Joyzi
 Track Listing

1. Drown
2. Broken Pieces
3. Fear
4. Looking For Myself
5. Bring On The Rain
6. Low
7. The Evil Inside
8. Higher
9. Face
10. Burn City Burn
11. Motionless

 Band Related Links
Breed 77 Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?