Thursday, March 24, 2016

Artist: Flotsam and Jetsam

Track: “Never to Reveal“

Flotsam and Jetsam have faster more epic albums (Doomsday for the Deceiver), thrashier albums (No Place For Disgrace), more adventurous albums (The Cold), and even more commercial albums (Drift). None of them hold a candle to Cuatro. When Cuatro was released in 1992, it seemed like Flotsam and Jetsam were finally going to hit the big leagues. Cuatro featured the band’s best sound, best songwriting and was (and still is) their most consistent release. It was also the album that finally attracted Mtv and radio attention. That attention started on the radio with the song ‘Never to Reveal’. ‘Never to Reveal’ was an excellent blend of the band’s new streamlined sound combined with a bit of the energy and heaviness of their past, and it received frequent plays on metal radio. A subsequent video for ‘Wading Through the Darkness’ put the band front-and-center on Mtv, and things seemed to finally be going well for the band.

Things have never really gone well for Flotsam and Jetsam, though. For every step forward, there’s at least the same amount of steps back (if not more). Everyone knows what happened in the early nineties, and Flotsam’s attempt to capitalize on their newfound attention with Drift ended with them splitting from their label and landing back at Metal Blade where they made a series of decent albums before finally releasing The Cold — which stands as one of their best releases. Which led to the guitarist that wrote the album leaving… one step forward, two steps back…

 

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