Once upon a time there was a band that, like Avenged Sevenfold, took a love for sleazy 80s rock and roll, mixed it with hardcore, and came up with a sound loved by thousands of music fans from around the world. If 'Vanity' started to take Eighteen Visions down a more rockier route, 'Obsession' definitely did. The bad news is that the band's newest record is an emotionless pile of crap - completely gone is the sound that made them 'famous' and instead the band have penned a pile of piss poor radio-friendly unit shifters.
'Our Darkest Days' and 'Broken Hearted' are such poor, poor songs it's difficult to imagine the band once attacked the listener with a sonic assault. The Velvet Revolver-esque 'Tonightless' suggests vocalist James Hart has listened to Scott Weiland a little too often, a style indicative of the band Eighteen Visions have become. If this record was written with classic rock radio stations in mind, 18V have probably been successful in their aims. The sad fact is this record is horribly predictable and safe - and simply not very good.
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