{"id":25357,"date":"2014-01-09T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-so-many-ways-seer-ep\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:29:44","slug":"album-review-so-many-ways-seer-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-so-many-ways-seer-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: So Many Ways &#8211; Seer EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_inline_mz3xv23iWI1qztcot.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><strong>So Many Ways<\/strong> are completely ridiculous. Somewhere between Avenged Sevenfold and Van Halen is <em>\u2018Seer\u2019<\/em> and it\u2019s just great fun. Opening track \u2018<em>Twisted Heat\u2019<\/em>, with its applicably 80s name is a perfect example of a band who weren\u2019t quite settled on whether they were going to thrash or shred, so they just did both. The verse sections are rapid, low, and heavy; the choruses, I\u2019m almost positive, summon down mullet-sporting eagles somewhere in the world each time they burst through the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a little bit of me that wants to hate this EP. There\u2019s no denying that it\u2019s a little silly \u2013 anything with this much pure riffage is always going to be so \u2013 and there\u2019s something about it that just conjures an image of Wyld Stallyns. That said those are probably the reasons why I can\u2019t help but love it a little. Take <em>\u2018Pen Island\u2019<\/em> as an example, this song has one of the most obscene guitar solos I think I\u2019ve ever heard. Immediately afterwards <em>\u2018SMTWTFS\u2019<\/em> goes on for long periods as almost pure solo, with the exception of a rather dramatic call and response section.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Seer\u2019<\/em> closes with another magnificent title: \u2018<em>Astral Beast\u2019.<\/em> Like <em>\u2018Twisted Heat\u2019<\/em> at the opening, this one lives up to the pure 80s cheese of its name. Sweeping guitar runs, slamming drums, soaring vocals, and, the cherry on the cake, a nice long fade out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Colin Corley\u2019s claim that, \u201cwe are all just a bunch of hardcore\/metal heads with a deep passion for Top 40 radio, 80&rsquo;s metal, and all things guitar,&ldquo; could perhaps do in place of a review at all, so perfectly does he sum up <strong>So Many Ways<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Seer\u2019 is six-tracks of guitar shredding magnificence. <\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2019Seer EP\u2019<\/em> by <strong>So Many Ways<\/strong> is out now on <strong>Staple Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So Many Ways<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/somanyways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/smwusa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/%20http:\/\/somanyways.tumblr.com\/\">Tumblr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Thomas Knott (<a href=\"http:\/\/@nounsandthenouns\">@nounandthenouns<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Many Ways are completely ridiculous. 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