“They don’t make metal bands the way they used to, and Deadtide out of NYC makes playing metal look like child’s play. After listening to their song “Alteration,” I was hooked. I love melodic metal bands like Soilwork and In Flames, with technical guitar work that makes your head spin and vocalists that scream so hard that it makes you marvel at the fact that they can also sing melodically after all that. Singer Mike Metal (none of them have last names on their Facebook page. That is so metal!) sings with such ferocity, he reminds me of Johannes Eckerström from Avatar. As I listen to their 2017 single release “Begin the Dream,” I find it hard to believe these guys are even from New York and New Jersey. They’ve harnessed this European metal sound that no one is really doing locally. I love it!”