It's easy to forget (especially during extremely busy times around the SMS) that local classic/hard rock musician Tym Morrison has original music being recorded and posted to his YouTube channel in between his prolific summer concert schedule. In fact, since we last talked about Tym's new original music in March, he has uploaded sixteen new videos, mostly with new original songs, so let's look at the first ten of them this morning! Just as an advisory note, remember that multiple songs here reflect his Christian faith as well as socio-political issues that, if sufficiently divisive, I won't comment on the lyrics and imagery of (this is not that kind of website). He also does use some AI-generated imagery in the videos, but the music is all originally composed and sung by him.
I won't comment on the AI side of things either, as A. I might misjudge what is AI and what is stock footage, and B. I want to focus on the music, so just a heads up before checking out these videos.
The former Caveman Morrison frontman's oldest of this un-covered batch of songs is "Father In The Sky", a metal song about God that has a good driving riff and melodic softer choruses, and it should please fans of his heavier originals! Next was "Our Evil Ways", which we first heard on Tym's 2006 "Solo Project" CD, where it was one of my favourite songs. Here, it gets a video contextualizing the lyrics around Christianity and modern social and political commentary. "We Will Decide" followed with more classic-inspired metal, and lyrics about how we will decide our future. Tym's existing love ballad "The Reason Why" came next, and in this case, it's double length, with a lyric video of his modern studio recording, followed by him playing the song live in high school in 1992. Tym's voice has held up over the years, as he sounds pretty close to how he does nowadays! Not his heaviest song, but it is still a pretty composition with a good message overall!
The ending caption heavily implies that the second guitarist on the live performance is the late Jeremey Salatuk (later of Wishbone, Lucky 13, and various other groups). Tym stayed in a reflective/romantic mood for his next song/video, "Heart Of Stone", which has a bit of a flamenco touch on some of the guitar work, and while not heavy, fans will appreciate the music (though the vocals are muffled somewhat at points). He returned to topical material next with "9/11", which reflects on the September 11th attacks, and I won't get into the rest of the song/video's viewpoints here (again, not that kind of site). Musically, it's more reserved, slow, and introspective. Things get heavier with "The Evil In Disguise", a hard rocker about what the title suggests, but played with an ominous and darker bent. and I do prefer Tym's metal songs to have more melody than this. Next was "Lay It On The Line", which is an existing original of his and not a Triumph cover.
Lyrically about a failing relationship, this is one of the most accessible songs here for folks who just want a metal/hard rock song without political or religious content, and it's a fun and intense metal track with solid guitar as you'd expect given Tym's skill set! He next posted "Down With The Devil", about a spiritual battle with Satan, and featuring lots of related CGI imagery. Tym's singing is too processed, but the music is sound with a catchy guitar riff and a strong solo! The last of today's videos was a new upload of his original "Suicide Bike Ride", inspired by a real bicycle accident that Tym had in the 1990s, and in this new video version, he adds captions on screen to outline what exactly happened. The text contrast isn't always great, but the context is welcomed, and this is definitely one of Tym's heaviest post-"Solo Project" original songs! Great riff and very pointed singing given that this all happened to him for real, but he will tell the story better than I ever could!
The other six new songs/videos are from the last two weeks, and I hope it will be much sooner to look at those on here as our backlog continues getting cleaned out. Again, I won't comment on what many of these videos touch on in terms of modern social and political issues, but Tym isn't afraid to share what he wants to say. Musically, these show his talents as a composer and singer well, especially when he leans into 1980s-inspired classic metal and hard rock, so give his new songs a listen at the above links, go see him live at Beck's Bar TOMORROW, and because of the rare video of him live in 1992, here's Tym and Jeremey playing "The Reason Why"!
That's all for now, but stay tuned for a new news post later today, including the Krash concert preview! Thanks everyone!
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