Pop Evil - Skeletons

Tracklist:

Arrival

Paranoid (Crash & Burn)

Circles

Eye the the Storm

Sound of Glory

Skeletons

Worth It

Who Will We Become

Wrong Direction (feat. Devour the Day)

Dead Reckoning (feat. Fit For A King)

Raging Bull (Feat. Zillion)

I cannot believe Pop Evil are on album number 7, it feels like yesterday I saw them open up in Birmingham just before Onyx came out. They’ve been together for 21 years aswell, I feel so old today!

 Title track “Skeletons” has that blues and country vibe especially with that clinking chain, reassuring relatable lyrics too a really settled but positive vibed song. “Paranoid (Crash & Burn)” is my new jam, I relate to that song so much, also it’s in your face and contagious, absolutely love it. “Who Will We Become” is very bouncy and gritty with another really big chorus for you to wrap your singing voices round, very positive and uplifting stuff, which is like “Worth” but worth for me is more of a deeper emotional feeling with a strong uplifting reminder. “Dead Reckoning” guest features Fit For A King and naturally as you probably already guessed it’s a bruiser of a song, it gives the song a bit of unique character, which is similar to “Wrong Direction” with Devour The Day except that one’s a bit more melodic but still with some strong crunch. I’ve very much got a Shinedown meets Sevendust vibe going on here, which I’m all for and there will never be a time I won’t be, they’ve come such a long way since I first discovered them and they deserve so much credit and recognition for what they’ve done here.

[9/10]