UNDERGROUND A&R REPORT

DRAGONWYCK - BORN INTO MADNESS

This band keep the proven fires of top-notch metal coming out of Ohio alive and fierce. Dragonwyck give kudos to all the past and future greats - Ozzy, Testament, Alice in Chains, Metallica - taking quess from these bands styles and giving us solid, heavy, introspective songs, screaming leads, with battle tank perfection. Classic heavy metal blasts from songs like Things Remembered, which recalls the genre's heyday era, and songs like Empty, which takes a huge riff and layers melodic vocals, masterfully, over the top. The band is made strong by the knowledge of metal's fabric by the individual players, working seamlessly like a well oiled machine. Mosts songs have three or more parts, something the best true metal always has (this usually separates it from alternametal, which leans more towards pop), which Metallica recently rediscovered on their new album. There is a chance Dragonwyck could be holding themselves back a tad with so much emulation, just a tad more progression would do them well. You can glimpse that in the band's arrangement on Neurotica, it gives a good direction. Overall it's a great ride throughout Born Into Madness, somewhere, Layne Stayley is smiling. Contact: Dragonwyckrocks.com / myspace.com/dragonwyckrocks