- KINGS X:
- Ty Tabor (guitar, vocals)
- Doug Pinnick (vocals, bass)
- Jerry Gaskill (drums, vocals)
- Produced by: Michael Wagener
- Engineered by: tbd
- Mixed by : tbd
- Mastered by: tbd
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KINGS X - XVUS Release : INOM79690 STOCK STATUS: IN STOCK - ships in 1 day |
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| King's X have often been exalted by critics as "smart metal" because of their spiritual, contemplative, philosophical lyrics -- and that intellectual approach to metal continues to work well for them on XV. Doug Pinnick, Ty Tabor, and Jerry Gaskill are as deep-thinking as ever on this 2008 release, but despite its intellect, XV is an easy album to absorb. In terms of melodies and hooks, XV goes for immediacy -- and some of the credit for that goes to veteran producer/engineer Michael Wagener, who King's X enlisted for this album. XV isn't the first time King's X have worked with Wagener; they also used him on 2005's Ogre Tones, and they obviously thought enough of Wagener to hire him a second time. Hooks, of course, are something Wagener knows a lot about; he worked with Ozzy Osbourne, Accept, Alice Cooper, Great White, Dokken, and many other headbangers in the 1980s -- and the hookiness that Wagener is known for prevails throughout XV. But that isn't to say that Wagener tries to turn King's X into Accept or Great White. Some of the discs that King's X have provided in the 21st century have been uneven, but XV is among their most consistent and focused albums of the 2000s | |
