{"id":3016,"date":"1985-01-01T00:00:55","date_gmt":"1985-01-01T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:08:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:08:33","slug":"demo-review-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"EDEN – Demo (1984) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDEN<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nEden (1984)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Remember Terracuda? That was a band covered in Metal Forces<\/em> issue 5. Well, like a lot of bands they have undergone another line-up change as well as changing their moniker again \u2013 this time to Eden. The line-up is now Mike Henry (vocals \/ guitar), Rick Crocco (guitar), David W. Henroyd (bass) and David Young (drums). Henry and Young were of course previously in August Redmoon (they had an EP called Fools Are Never Alone<\/em> out a while ago on the Metalworks label) who then promptly split into the aforementioned Terracuda. Then with two new members, Crocco and Henroyd from Salt Lake, Eden were formed.<\/p>\n

Now firmly based in Orange County, California Eden have recorded a five-song demo featuring \u2018Pound It Out,\u2019 \u2018The Bigger They Are,\u2019 \u2018Gone Too Far,\u2019 \u2018The Looking Glass\u2019 and \u2018Victim Of The World\u2019; all of which are a vast progression on the material that was recorded with Terracuda. Even though the tape does suffer from the obligatory poor production, Eden do possess a good solid metal sound mixed in with a sense of subtlety that a lot of new bands lack. This is shown on the track \u2018The Looking Glass\u2019, which is a great slowish song which mixes acoustic and electric metal guitar to great effect \u2013 similar to Ace Frehley\u2019s \u2019Fractured Mirror\u2019 track off his solo LP.<\/p>\n

The other songs are all good if not that original. \u2018Pound It Out\u2019 is what it says… an out-and-out metallic anthem, while \u2018Gone Too Far\u2019 and \u2018The Bigger They Are\u2019 are very much in the commercial vein. At the moment, Eden are negotiating a major record deal (it seems a lot of interest was caused by Metal Forces<\/em>\u2019 \u2018Demolition\u2019 feature on Terracuda). But while those talks go on, the band are contenting themselves by gigging in the Los Angeles area and rehearsing. They are also thinking of putting out a single or an EP on an independent label.<\/p>\n

Steve Hammonds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 9 (1985)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EDEN Eden (1984) Remember Terracuda? That was a band covered in Metal Forces issue 5. Well, like a lot of bands they have undergone another line-up change as well as changing their moniker again \u2013 this time to Eden. The line-up is now Mike Henry (vocals \/ guitar), Rick Crocco (guitar), David W. Henroyd (bass) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-eden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}