X-Sinner

I'm somewhat excited for it. My mom can't stand Rex's voice, so I can't play it when she's around, but who doesn't love rock-n-roll from time to time?

I got my notice from PayPal yesterday that mine had shipped.  I should have it in a day or two!

Is this supposed to be a Christian project? I got mine today and (so far) there's not a whiff of Christian anything on it.

Rex has said it's more "Christian friendly".

So far I have downloaded the first 5 tracks from iTunes and since I can't understand what Rex is singing I can't tell if it is Christian or not but it DOES rock!

 

My cd arrived in the mail today.
Going to listen now

I feel left out. I haven't received mine yet. Oh well, it might be soon

I got mine yesterday as well but still haven't played it all the way through.

So how does it sound? 


I just ordered mine so hope to get it soon.

Sounds a lot like the last one but I am having trouble understanding what he is singing on some of the songs (again I have only downloaded the first 5 songs, will get to the rest later).

Have gotten a PayPal notification my CD is shipped.
Now, let's see how long I have to wait.

I don't like it much. The music is decent, but Rex's vocals are just awful IMO. I thought maybe he was returning to a more clean style like Zion and the first two X-Sinner albums; but no, he insists on doing this awesomely-bad copycat of AC/DC's vocals instead. If he'd just sing like he's capable, this band would be amazing. But he utterly ruins it for me with his choice of vocal style.

Follower of Jesus wrote:

I don't like it much. The music is decent, but Rex's vocals are just awful IMO. I thought maybe he was returning to a more clean style like Zion and the first two X-Sinner albums; but no, he insists on doing this awesomely-bad copycat of AC/DC's vocals instead. If he'd just sing like he's capable, this band would be amazing. But he utterly ruins it for me with his choice of vocal style.

I tend to agree, his vocals were better on the last one. The music on this is very good but I too have issues with the vocal range.

Still nothing in my mailbox. Nada, zip, zilch, nothing.

HI-JACK ALERT - I got Fire it Up last year not knowing it was a rework of Peace Treaty. I like some of the lead work, but I always felt Peace Treaty was a very strong album.  Why mess with it?  Anyone have any opinions on it?

They added some pieces so that they could use the music recorded with Pakaderm/Word.  Word now owns the masters and wanted a hefty price to release them.  So, they took what they had done, added parts and had it remastered.  It's a little sneaky, but it is legally considered a new work this way.  So, they had a few changes and called it something new.  I didn't like it and got rid of that, but I did have the original release anyway.

I dont have the original, only the Fire It Up Version. My huge complaint about it is it has a TERRIBLE tape hiss for a CD. I knew right then it was NOT re-recorded as I was lead to believe... Didn't even sound remastered. As for the guitar solos, I dont have the original so I can't compare the length of the solos.

The solos are the same as the song lengths are exactly the same.  The project was taken from the original tapes/CDs and then just had extra guitar parts recorded over those.  Sometimes it is a few extra lead licks.  Most of the time, it was just some added rhythm parts that, to me, took away from the original arrangements.  When you are doing a "less is more" approach to rock, then adding things just seems wrong.