Gibraltar's primo (and I would be willing to guess only) Flamenco-metal band's latest single, Look At Me Now, is deceptive, opening as it does with simple piano chords and an emotional vocal before developing into a metal-lite ballad which doesn't really showcase their unique Spanish appeal.
This may be the result of it being the third pick from their last album, In My Blood (En Mi Sangre). You know how it is, even Guns’N’Roses wound up releasing more soft numbers than stadium rockers, and Breed 77 have had success with this kind of material before - it's not that far away from their most successful single, The River.
There's much more promise in the B-side, an unlikely-sounding cover of The Cranberries' Zombie which actually works out very well with the wall of wailing guitars, scattershot drums, bursts of frenzied flamenco and grating vocals. You would be hard-pressed to identify the songs as coming from the same band if you didn't know better. Their next album, Un Encuentro, will be entirely in Spanish, and the taster that rounds out this four track single suggests that with rich vocals and Flamenco guitar nicely balanced with power chords, it's one to anticipate.
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