Before completely destroying our ear drums at the huge Soundwave 2013 festival in a few months, American rock band Stone Sour is releasing their brand new LP for our listening pleasure.
House of Gold and Bones is the first of a two part album release comprising of a total of 24 tracks.
The LP is the band’s fourth studio album and shows that they’ve still got the goods. As the opening track “Gone Sovereign” comes in with some seriously heavy riffing, lead singer Corey Taylor’s vocals accompany it quite cleanly.
Eventually the sound that will take over the next eleven tracks arrives when the drums come pounding in. Taylor’s vocals turn to screams and the sound hits full throttle, blasting through the rest of the album.
“Absolute Zero”, the second track off the album, is one of the highlights as the bone crushing rock continues.
The heavy riffs provide some serious head banging material while the perfectly timed drum beats give you something to pump your fist to at the same time.
The hemes of self loathing and hate on “A Rumour Of Skin” keep the distortion, guitar solos and fast drumming coming at you like a bat out of hell before Taylor shows his diversity in a slower acoustic number with some clean soft vocals.
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“RU486” has the biggest punch on the album with a barrage of ferocious riffs that are joined by Taylor’s harsh vocals before the album ends with the track “Last of the Real” keeping it heavy till the end.
