Search - Course of Nature :: Superkala

Vanessa O. (butterflyvo) from HOMER, GA
Reviewed on 12/14/2007...

this whole cd is great! it's very easy listening.

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An Amazing Band... Such a Rarity in Modern Hard Rock.

L. Powles | Palatine, IL USA | 11/02/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"No band in the modern music scene can combine emotion, perfect guitar riffs, and heavy bass to create a painfully life-like album. The songs clearly stem from true emotion (e.g. Tool), rather than teenage angst or broken homes (e.g. Papa Roach). This is a perfect blend of all these things, and results in a rare gem in modern rock.
As far as the music goes, the songs on the CD are so different and diverse, they may have been written by 10 different bands. It opens with the sluggish, emotional and very good "Wall of Shame". Next, it stems off into the surprising ballad "Caught In The Sun", which mixes acoustic guitars, crooning vocals and a perfect underlying bass tone. Also, the band manages to incorporate some orchestral music into this song, adding to the drama level. The band continues throught the album in said fashions of the first two tracks, changing the styles just enough to avoid being cliche, but not as much as to break away from what makes them Course of Nature. By the final two tracks, "Better Part Of Me" and "After the Fall", the band adds some speed, complex drumming, and even some jazz instruments into the music. Both of these tracks make perfect closers to this near-perfect debut album.
Hard rockers looking for some good new music will have a very hard time in todays world, but this is a great place to start. Course of Nature are a rarity of amazing music that doesn't sound like a carbon-copy of a band that came before them. Originality that results in something this great is a near-impossible find today, so get this one now. It's worth every penny."

A Very Good Debut... a Great CD

presypclhs | New Jersey USA | 01/06/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first heard about Course of Nature when a friend of mine recommended Wall of Shame. I then acquired their debut album Superkala in 2002. Three or four years later, it's still one of my favorite cds. The songs range from rough hard dock (Wall of Shame) to soft, violin accompanied ballads (Caught in the Sun) to the jazzy After the Fall.



Caught of Nature is:



Mark Wilkerson -- Lead vocals, rhythm guitar.



Fish -- Lead guitar, bass.



Ricky Shelton -- Drums, backup vocals.





The album features ten solid rock songs, but there are some standouts. Caught in the Sun is a magnificient track, Difference of Opinion, Someone Else to You, and Better Part of Me are absolutely stellar tracks.



Wilkerson is not an exceptional singer, although he's very good. Fish is an excellent guitarist, and, accompanied with Wilkerson's solid rhythm guitar, produce a great sound. Shelton is a respectable drummer, although the drums are usually drowned out by the guitar. One of the great strengths of this group is the song writing. Songs such as Better Part of Me and Caught in the Sun are beautifully written.



I have one complaint about the album though. With only ten tracks, it comes in at a short (approx.) 46 minutes. Hopefully, if there's a followup album, it will be just as solid of a record but feature a few more tracks. They've had three years, so if they are producing another album, I'm expecting alot out of it."