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My Sunday Song – “Psychosane” by Adrenaline Mob

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For My Sunday Song #466, we are talking Adrenaline Mob’s killer track “Psychosane”. Adrenaline Mob was Mike Portnoy’s first project after leaving Dream Theatre. Also in the band were singer Russel Allen (Symphony X) and guitarist Mike Orlando who were the chief songwriters to the song as well. The song is from their 2013 debut album, ‘Omerta’, which went to #70 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

The song was inspired by the movie ‘American Psycho’ where Christian Bale’s character would be acting totally sane and then a minute later would be totally unhinged cutting people up. The song appears to be describing a sane person that suddenly has a rush of feelings coming across your mind that is an intense, adrenaline filled, psychotic episode that will see you going bat shit crazy and completely destructive. You should embrace the feeling and act upon it and then all will be right with the world. It seems to be living with like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of feeling.

Musically, the song is an intense, bombastic metal track that comes at you like Mike Tyson craving an ear. Portnoy’s drums are massive and a gut punch to your soul. The guitar riff by Orlando is simply nasty, leaving you scratching at your skin trying to shake that feeling of dread. Allen’s vocals are menacing and evil with a grit to it that echoes in your mind driving you insane. You get a spoken part by Allen repeating over and over “Going psychosane / Motherfucking psychosane“. The guitar solo is lethal and Orlando even throws in an old school talk box despite the overall sound being a very modern rock piece in the same vein as maybe Godsmack or Shinedown. The song lives up to the bands name as an Adrenaline filled metal track that will leave you wanting to destroy anything or anyone in your path.

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SOTO – ‘Inside the Veritgo’ (2015) – Album Review (The Jeff Scott Soto Series)

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Jeff Scott Soto has been around for over 30 years now and he started out singing for some heavy bands like Yngwie Malmsteen and Axel Rudi Pell. Then he was more melodic with bands like Talisman, Eyes and W.E.T. and he evened funked things up with his solo albums on occasion, but he has always liked the heavy stuff. For his next project, it wasn’t another solo album, but instead it was a new metal band called SOTO. Hmmm…where did he come up with that name? Jeff has said this is a working band and not a side project and will be around for a long while and there is definitely a band. In SOTO are of course, Jeff, but you also get Jorge Salan on guitars, BJ on guitars and keys, David Z (Of ZO2) on bass and Edu Cominato on drums.

However, there are so many guests and extra musicians on this album, that I’m not sure you can really count this as a band album as the “band” isn’t on every song. Now, that doesn’t take away from anything on the album, I’m just saying I don’t really see this particular SOTO album as a band more of as a project. The album came out on January 30, 2015, but I don’t see a physical release of the album in the States so they only had digital. My copy of the album is actually from Mexico and is a digipack. No bonus or nothing extra, but I will take what I can get. Let’s jump right and get in to the meat of it all as the music is why we are here.

The first track is “Final Say” and it is written by Jeff Scott Soto and Adrenaline Mob member Mike Orlando who does all the instruments on this song (see, no band members but JSS). And like I said above, that doesn’t take away from the music as this song kicks some major ass. The guitars are heavy, the drums are thunderous and Soto is aggressive and lethal with the vocals. An explosive opening that tells you right away this is a heavier, darker JSS and I’m all for it.

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