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Velocity’s last CD “Impact” may have been the best melodic hard rock releases of the 1990’s. Soaring guitars, strong vocals and impressive songwriting all dominated this overlooked masterpiece. Comparisons could be drawn to Firehouse and Brian Howe era Bad Company. Lead vocalist / guitarist David Victor also saw his solo CD “David Victor” reissued as well. The songs were in a similar vein, fast cars, good times and women. “Getaway Machine” and “Summer Rules” were anthemesque tracks to go along with Velocity’s killer tracks “You Don’t Amaze Me Anymore”, “Julia Ann”, and “Janine”. David Victor has also done some guitar session work with symphonic rock goddess Lana Lane and her collaborator Erik Norlander. “Activator” is Velocity’s latest, 5 song release and unfortunately the sound has taken a tuned down slightly alternative direction. Too bad considering the impressive material Victor has written in the past. The closest sounding track to their older material is the song “You”, with the guitars sounding much brighter. “Stay” is a plodding track with Victor’s vocals still sounding impressive while “Beautiful and Useless” is a much heavier, darker song. “Stranger” is a moody alternative rock track with a killer guitar solo a little past mid-track. While I am
rather disappointed with Velocity’s latest release, fans of melodic hard rock
should definitely check out their previous release “Impact” and David Victor’s
self-titled solo CD as well. Glimpses of promise still shine through in parts
of the EP, but overall Velocity should avoid the already overdone modern rock
stylings. Hopefully, when Velocity releases a new full length CD, the band will
once again take a nod to their strongest writing abilities and not cater to
millennium mediocrity. |
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