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Billy Talent III is the album of the century | 2009
Brandon DavenportBen, Ian, Jon and Aaron are, like most popular bands, getting older and trying to get back to their roots. Billy talent (formerly known asPezz)is aCanadian band formed in 1993 inStreetsville, Ontario.The members met and played in high school under the name Pezz and remained underground inToronto's indie music scene until 2001.
The band renamed itself Billy Talent after running into legal trouble with the old name. It was then that Kowalewicz's connection with a worker in Warner Music Canada's A&R landed the band a record deal and launched them into mainstream success. Since then, Billy Talent has made two multi-platinum records in Canada, and continues to expand their success overseas, this included touring for 20 months supporting their second album.
My take on Billy Talent III
The reasons why I love Billy Talent are not the reasons I love this album. See, the thing is in Billy Talent 3 you can easily tell the inspiration was from mid 70's and 90's rock. That feeling was not present in the past 2 albums.
Gone is the Young Punk attitude and coming is a more grown up, solid sound with more body and less screaming. Billy Talent is no longer a punk band and more of a group of entertainers with great, fast-paced Rock music with a deeper sound with Soaring vocals and a much nicer sound overall. The production quality is beyond stellar and meets that of Nickleback and Madona.
Billy Talent was smart to keep the origional sound, Deep bass with a touch of mid and a range of high frequencies. Their sound is unique because you can hear all the instuments at once. I can tell that Ben has worked hard on the stability of his unique vocals and the Live concert of rusted from the rain says just that:
So overall Billy Talent III is a must buy. Must Must MUST!!! Every song is amaizing and worth listening to over and over again!
