If metal has the power and hard rock the groove, then Awaiting Abigail has a foot in each camp. Then again, when I was getting into music, metal was yet to evolve into the screamo horror that it seems to have become, and hard rock was still trading on 70’s grooves, so there wasn’t much between the genres anyway. That means they sound like a classic rock band from way back, which isn’t a bad comparison to have thrown at you.
“Bad Mind” is one-hundred and thirty-seven percent groove, that chugging riff, that steady beat, those staccato breakdowns, that sound of relentless bass drives coupled with an overall grinding infectiousness, that dynamic vocal range, and those six-string salvos that are fired off halfway through – a place for everything and everything in its place, as the saying goes.
Now, I’m not saying that there is anything nostalgic or backward glancing about Awaiting Abigail; it’s just that they seem to have remembered what it is that makes rock music work, essentially, all the things I have listed above. So, rather than trying to change the rock scape or reinvent the wheel, the band is content to dig down into the basic lore of rock and roll.
This is not a bad that is necessarily doing anything particularly different. This is a band that is doing it better. And that wins every time.
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