Dust for Life - Dust for Life Review

Dust for Life has taken the best of 70s and 80s hard rock with melodic sensibilities, leaving behind all the corporate trappings and distilled some fantastic blues-influenced hard rock onto their debut CD.

Dust for Life understands the power of dynamic changes in a song and gives the loud stuff  to contrast against. Chris Gavin's fantastic vocal style ranges from gut-wrenched hollering to soaring. Jason Hughes is no slave to the gratuitous guitar solos that finally turned me off to glam rock back in 1990, but when he wails he makes it count. He and the solid blues-savvy rhythm section take what might be boring done by a lesser band and demand your attention. David Rhea and Rick Shelton are visceral; they'll get inside you and change your metabolism to match the beat of the song.

Best songs on the album: "Step into the Light," "Lifelike," "Seed," and "The End." Every song, though, has its moments.

Looking forward to great things in the future from Dust for Life.