![]() ![]() The Angelic Warlord review (75%) of the previous Wales Road album from 2011, Beyond The Shadow Of A Doubt, summed things up in similar fashion: “I find it sufficient to label the group “hard rock”, keeping in mind again the diversity of styles at hand. One reviewer that described Wales Road as, ".riff loaded heavy rock and power ballads to pop-esque ditties to acoustic /electric blues…” had the right idea (and hit the nail on the head in terms of what is going on here musically). Where Wales Road breaks the mold is musical direction, bypassing the melodic rock and metal of its rock praise predecessors and taking a straightforward hard rock heading with heavy elements of acoustic blues. Wales Road follows the tried and true method of taking traditional hymns and contemporary praise songs and setting them to a musical framework that is much more current and up to date. ![]() ![]() The latest to get in on the rock praise bandwagon is Rochester, New York based Wales Road and its fall of 2013 and 17th album overall in Radio Scripture. The most noteworthy can be attributed to Petra, encompassing but not limited to Petra Praise: The Rock Cries Out (1989) and Petra Praise 2: We Need Jesus (1997), and former Neon Cross guitarist PK Mitchell, All Hail The Power (1994) and All Hail The Power II (2013). While the previously referenced are compilation albums that feature the contributions from a variety of vocalists and musicians, rock praise projects also come in the form of band based releases and solo projects. Those in doubt need consider the number released since the early nineties, starting with the three volume Rock Power Praise series, The Hymns (1990), Christmas Hymns (1991) and Gospel Hymns (1992), but also including Metal Praise (1992) and Scandinavian Metal Praise (2008). Rock praise albums have been done to death. ![]()
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