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He Is Legend
It takes a lot of Huevos Rancheros to write a concept album based around harlots and witches and truck drivers and pedophiles and sex and murder. And, if you’re going to pick a style of music to put it to, you probably couldn’t pick a better one than the dirty, Southern, raw rock that He Is Legend dialed in (perhaps after being blown away by a Maylene & the Sons of Disaster show, but I doubt that). This shouldn’t be too much of a shock when you look at the band’s Solid State debut, I Am Hollywood, which took a similar hard rock stab at the epic and classic discussion of man’s deadly sins. While the band has generated more than its share of controversy and attention as of late, they’re certainly artists that deliver more than is visible from the surface. Musically, they deliver a sweeping, dynamic offering that fits nicely somewhere between the aforementioned Maylene and Demon Hunter (in fact, “Mushroom River” could be a nice intro into “Undying”). [Solid State] DV
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