Uncreation is a powerful record with a strong set of 11 songs like "Two Steps to the Sun", "Wicca" and the title track. The music is accented by the extraordinary vocals of Veronica Freeman which are very Dio-esque. In fact, the band has two Sabbath covers on here. Morley spoke with Veronica about how the covers came about and a lot of other topics. It's a great interview and killer introduction to a new metal band that seems to be going places. Here is a little of what she had to say about the Sabbath covers:
antiMusic: How was the decision made to cover two Sabbath cuts?
Veronica Freeman: It wasn't (laughs). I'm glad you asked that one. I was singing some Dio stuff obviously for a while and I already went into this whole recording process knowing we wanted "Heaven and Hell" to be one of the tracks on the actual album. And just before the recording process was up and we were out of money and out of time and all of that, the label wanted a bonus track. So we were going to do "Rainbow in the Dark" and we had a chance to work with Jimmy Bain so we thought we'll do something we all know. We only had a couple of days to do this and we had to do it in San Diego. So we'll throw something together real fast. Long story short, we get to San Diego and we do our thing and we had enough time to do one more song, so we did "Mob Rules". When we heard the play back of "Rainbow in the Dark", it just wasn't happening. It just laid there. And "Mob Rules" came out a lot better. It was always supposed to be on a limited version digipack and unbeknownst to us, the next thing you know the CD isactually the actual CD end result one is out and it has that on there so we weren't real pleased about that at first because I thought it was a little much to do too. We didn't want to do it that way. We thought it was cool as a bonus track but not as part of the actually album. So what's done is done. We can't take it back. But it was not our decision. [see the full story for the full interview]
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