Artist: Hundred Year Storm
Album: Hello From The Children Of Planet Earth
Label: Floodgate Records
Purchase: Smart Punk
Release Date: August 22, 2006

Overall: 8.5
Music: 9.0
Lyrics: 7.5
Production: 8.5

Usually when a band wants to make an experimental record, they wait until their second or third record to do it. Hundred Year Storm decided to skip a few steps, and here they are now with a debut album that can only be described as well…experimental. They’ve managed to make it work though and the result was a surprisingly mature, well done debut album that to be honest, doesn’t even sound like a debut. If the artwork or the clips of John F. Kennedy speaking about the space program on the track “The Golden Age� didn’t tip you off yet, the record is a concept album about outer space.

Artist: Transition
Album: Get There
Label: Floodgate Records
Purchase: Smart Punk
Release Date: September 12, 2006

Overall: 7.4
Music: 7.5
Lyrics: 7.3
Production: 8.0

This band’s singer, Daniel Smyers, sound just like Scott Sellers of Rufio. For the first few seconds of listening to this band, I thought I was listening to Rufio. Take the metal influences away from Rufio and you have Transition.

“Excusable” is another anthem for working class teenagers with dreams of living a more exciting life. It’s pretty catchy, too. For some reason though, I just can’t get into the rest of this album.