Two

Voyeurs

(c)(p)1998 Interscope Records

Review by Neil St.Laurent

For the larger part of our readership I'm assuming that Two, Rob Halford's new band, was not a highly anticipated release -- and if it was, then after you hear it you'll wish it wasn't.

"Voyeurs" is a solid statement to us that Rob Halford is fully capable of doing the same thing he has always done before, all differences in this release are rooted in, let's call it "heavy influence" from other bands. Somewhere within the hours upon hours of Judas Priest, and a couple hours of Fight, you will find every riff, idea, and probably even lyrical phrase that is used within this Two album. That isn't entirely true, many of the components you will have to look elsewhere in your collection, and with "Sutter Kiss" you'll be able to confuse some I Mother Kiss fans. So other than the odd component, most of the album is fairly typically guitar rhythm driven with potentially a solo here or there.

There is nothing to review on this album, it has all been done before, and with much more uniformity than is presented here. The album lacks any degree of emotion, and is overall too simple to be considered a technical album. Maybe credit could be given to the production crew, if the goal was to produce very lacklustre, and likely to many people, very boring music.

It is a little too heavy to appeal to the alternative rock listener, and this is probably a good thing because all you'd ever hear from these fans is how much this album has stolen from their favorite bands. For everybody else this is simply an uninspired album that has little to nothing to offer.

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