Frank Silver - Open Your Eyes
Rock, Blues, Pop
New Jersey, United States
Overall Impression: New Jersey's Frank Silver successfully invokes the true spirit of mid to late 80's Sleaze Rock and Hair Metal on his killer track, Open Your Eyes. With a darker blues inspired edge, that recalls some of the groovier moments of bands like Whitesnake and L.A. Guns. As a chunky rhythm guitar and driving lead riff, kick the track off, Open Your Eyes explodes into Silver's captivating vocals. Falling somewhere between Layne Staley, David Lee Roth and Axl Rose. As the drums and bass groove out, the track drops into a bridge with some sick soloing from Silver. And as the main chorus resumes once more, Silver instructs the listener to "open your eyes, don't be blind." as the track comes to an appropriately wild and chaotic crescendo before coming to an explosive end.
Strongest Point(s): Great mixing, mastering and general production work. Everything sounds really great. I can even clearly hear the rattle of a shaker in the background. Great spatial mixing too. Sounds very professional. Frank's vocal tone is really unique with an excellently mixed vocal track.
Target Audience Appeal: Lots of people enjoy a good old fashioned late-80's inspired Hard Rock song. Plenty of fanbases for music like this. From Glam Rock, Alternative, Grunge, Groove Metal, Blues Rock, New Wave, etc. Definitely reach out to sync agencies for placement in films, television, or streaming media.
Artist target suggestions: Alice In Chains, Sven Gali, Saigon Kicks, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Skid Row, Van Halen, Warrant, Queensryche, Europe, Scorpions, The Darkness, Ghost, Cinderella, RATT, Poison, etc.
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About the Reviewer:
Joshua A. Pfeiffer is a music nerd who spends countless hours researching music, and curating public playlists and DJ mixes, to spread awareness of emerging musicians and to highlight the wonderful world of music history. Josh has a deep affection for most genres and eras of music, is an active, professional, award-winning DJ (DJ FACT.50 - Best of the Bay 2019 ~ SF Weekly), twitch streamer, amateur audio engineer and working musician. As founder, lead singer, and co-songwriter of the band Vernian Process, Josh has over 15 years of experience in the music industry. And for nearly a decade, was the owner and head writer for the online community post-punk.com.