Taking influences from the likes of Stone Sour, System of a Down and Mudvayne — as well as more veteran bands like Alice in Chains, Godsmack and Ozzy Osbourne — Canada's Blind Race apparently is trying to fill a perceived musical gap in the post-grunge universe. The quartet's musical vision includes raw-and-raging rockers, deep-throated acoustic ballads and practically everything in between, and it all can be heard in the 11 songs on Blind Race's first CD, Seeing Red (a second disc, tentatively titled Straight Jacket is already being prepped for fall of 2008). Vocalist Tommy Geraldes often sounds like he comes from the Scott Stapp/Scott Weiland schools of singing, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. His brooding delivery and jaw-dropping range lends color and shadows to these dark songs. But Blind Race's most valuable player has to be guitarist Costas Kentros (who founded the band with his drummer brother Stelios in late 2005). His wicked solos on songs like the raw "Retaliate" and "Cryptic Confession" and the ballad "Wait" rise way above the fray.
Track Listing:
1) Seeing Red
2) Inside of Me
3) Retaliate
4) Wait
5) Cryptic Confession
6) Looking Down on Me
7) You Made Me Feel
8) Too Late
9) Grave
10) Cold As Death
11) Choices
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