Tony Martin solo album "Thorns" gets release date

[Zzzptm]

Back to Mr. Martin... his vocal resemblance to Mr. Dio is very much a factor in this album, most excellently! I'm on my 4th listen, I'm going to wear a groove into these MP3s for sure...

[Charger]

Ach...fuck it.

[Charger]

Good lord...Mr. Martin's voice has surely held up incredibly well! He's sounding fantastic!

[Zzzptm]

Good lord...Mr. Martin's voice has surely held up incredibly well! He's sounding fantastic!

Yes. Yes, he *is*. Incredible, isn't it?

[Charger]

So far I can say my favourites are As The World Burns, Black Widow Angel, Book Of Shadows and Passion Killer. Absolutely SUBERB tracks all.

Tony's vocals on Crying Wolf are incredible but I'm not totally sold on the track otherwise....Damned By You is a great track too and features Tony on his Violin again which is always great.

[Zzzptm]

What I like best is how Tony Martin is being Tony Martin. He's not locked into having to sound one way or another, he's able to be himself and is intimately comfortable with his material and bandmates.

[Vyn]

Quietly biding his time...like a cat...he pounces and tears ass with this release.

[Jack the Stripper]

I gave Thorns a couple of listens last week. Pretty heavy, solid musicianship and good production. It’s not bad, but after I was done listening to it nothing really stuck in my head or was really memorable enough to warrant me going back again. Tony’s vocal melodies come across a bit bland for my liking although the wonders of modern technology have done a good job at propping up his his vocals. The guitar riffage is probably the highlight of the album but at the same time it’s fairly stock modern metal fare and the lack of guitar solos hurts it a bit too I think.

My favourite tracks were surprisingly the less metal sounding ones like “Crying Wolf” and “This is your Damnation”. They just seemed to offer something fresh & different to my ears. From the heavy hitters the ones I liked most were with the opening track “As the World Burns”, “No Shame At All” and Run Like The Devil.

[Charger]

I'm adding This Is Your Damnation to the SUBERB list. What a funky song! This most certainly reminds me of some of Ian Gillan's solo work just like ZZZ said! Killer track absolutely!

[Zzzptm]

Yes, where Tony breaks out of the metal mold, I think he's at his best. Another vote for This Is Your Damnation as the gem of the album.

[Charger]

Yeah...Tony's a very versatile singer. He's got one of those voices that can do pretty much anything. There aren't too many singers like that out there.

I'm on my second listen of the album now...I think I'll do one more then I'll be waiting for the cd to properly dive into the album.

[Zzzptm]

DEFINITELY I'm hot to do a song-by-song for this album. I'm letting it marinate right now, don't want to play it to death, so I'll be ready when you are.

[Charger]

Tony just mentioned that the Re-issue of the album is now done and ready for sale...well not so much a re-issue as just new pressing really.

There were some issues with the artwork being too dark in the original one AND there was a huge mistake in the booklet as Danny Needham's name was totally missing from the credits so they decided to do a whole new pressing of the album.

Tony's also signing few copies of the new pressing...I thought what the heck...if he still has some signed copies left I'll have one...

[Zzzptm]

Wow, that's totally classy of The Cat. Well done, Mr. Martin!

[Charger]

Indeed...not many bands do a repressing right away if they find something wrong with the booklet!