Sacred Rite: Resurrection

Hawaii's preeminent metal band Sacred Rite has stepped back into the spotlight after a nearly 21-year absence. Vocalist Mark Kaleiwahea belts the bruised blooze that made this band, uh, famous on the boogie intensive "I Didn't Mean To Do It" and "High Society," two of the album's best tracks. Guitarist Jimmy Caterine riffs and crunch chords his way through the whole album, calling to mind the glory days of early Van Halen as often as he brings a meaty, almost southern rock inflection to the fold. The band––rounded out by bassist Peter Crane and late drummer Kevin Lum who appears here via sampled drums––also manages to get its NWOBHM on with "Long Way Down" and gives up some Deep Purple on "Schizophrenia." The two commercial appeals here––"The Phoenix" and "Cry," plus the workaday rocker "Resurrection"––don't have the requisite heft to catapult the comeback album into the stratosphere but one gets the sense that Sacred Rite has largely made this album to celebrate its legacy and, maybe, attract the attention of a few old fans.

Track Listing
1. I Didn't Mean To Do It
2. Resurrection
3. High Society
4. Long Way Down
5. Cry
6. Schizophrenia
7. The Phoenix
8. The End Of Time

Added: November 6th 2007
Reviewer: Jedd Beaudoin
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