Album Review: Self titled by The Allegiance

This was another album that I got off the street at a comic book convention this time. I wasn’t even wearing my Sehnnhisers this time.

The Allegiance has a standard rock sound with some metal influence. The instrumentation is solid, but has a prefabricated, simplistic sound. The overall sound improves on a second listen, but it does not catch and would not stand out among the rest of my collection as anything more than good background music.

Similarly, the vocals are only average, neither attracting nor deterring the ear. Front man, Ben “shanks”(sic. They gave themselves nicknames) has a tendency to be inarticulate and cannot seem to make up his mind if he wants to be a metal front man or a rock front man. Either way the he would do well to articulate more and hone his vocal skills.

The lyrics are on the generic side, however they are pretty consistent with a band this green.

The bass work is solid, noting special, but nothing horrid either.

I could hear this band at a festival as somewhere around the 4pm slot, or perhaps as an early opener for a large rock show.

(2.5/5)