Devour The Day Lights Up The Rock Scene

Devour The Day explodes onto the scene, all barrels loaded for "Lightning In The Sky". Not an aspect of the performance lacks bounce. Vocalist Blake Allison sports a demonic expression on his face throughout the video. He really gets into his work as you can tell. Sheets of rock intensity rain down from the musical heavens. Ronnie Farris drums ferociously and passes the dividends along to us. He puts in the extra effort which only serves to enhance the enjoyment one gets from the song as a whole. Lots of fire erupting from David Hoffman's guitar too. He knows how to get the attention he wants when he wants it. No deep frills. No need to impress you with overly engineered brilliance. Four on the floor exemplary marksmanship on his part. Hits the pressure points and lets them know he means business. Psychotic much Blake? The lyric sheet suggests otherwise. From the jump you know it's clear no sane human being could've penned these sentiments. How about "It was a dangerous display, a beautiful storm, a flash in the atmosphere. And then you were gone. A deadly device, your electric embrace surrounded and swallowed me alive. Now I'm not the same." How do you keep the ladies at bay summoning up solid gold thoughts like that. The rhythms are set on hyperactive and we know what that can do for the pre-teen set. Hormones flailing away like the apocalypse was at hand. I'm really drawn to how the drama seeps into each musician's time to shine. The chorus brings down as much lightning as you can stand. "Strike me down before you burn away." Sounds awfully final to me. You might get vertigo from the high histrionic movements at hand. The higher the stakes the deeper the rumblings of thunderous sturm and drang unearth to make you uncomfortable enough to turn away with your sanity intact but curious enough to witness how unsettled Blake's demeanor can get. I can't think of a single facet of "Lightning In The Sky" that wouldn't inspire goosebumps to make themselves known. Joey "Chicago" Walser comes to add his two cents worth. It works its way into your spine and doesn't bother to ask "Mother may I? You get a solidly impressive confluence of unity among bandmates. They take turns stirring the pot, sparing no expense on nosegay spiking ingredients until the resulting soup of psychological bits of broken pieces simply won't be ignored. A tad of the shakes predominates "Lightning In The Sky". Whether it's Blake's supposed inability to keep his mental instability under wraps or how the guitars further enhance the relative discomfort we're left to muse over, Devour The Day flat out insists that we quake in our collective boots. Due to this "Lightning In The Sky" makes being under red alert constantly sound like a hoot and a half.