A PERFECT DAY – With Eyes Wide Open (2020)
Taking a look at the cover art of “With Eyes Wide Open”, the new A PERFECT DAY album, it would led you to believe this is a complex collection of progressive metal tunes tinged with a gothic overtones. Wrong.
“With Eyes Wide Open” is a listener friendly, modern melodic rock album that has ample aspects of edge, as well as sheen. It takes elements from current metal, but also classic hard rock, and even some pop.
Production wise, the record is a cohesive sounding mix with a lot of warm distorted guitar tones and a punchy rhythm section bed that is solid and driving, without drawing too much attention away from the vocal harmonies and primary electric guitar lines…