How to compete with Emule? Billy Talent III: Guitar Villain Edition

We hear a song we like and we jot the name down on a paper or we repeat what we think it´s the title of the song several times so we don´t forget it .Later we turn the computer on and remember, what was the name of that song? Ahhh...I´ll download it right now! We open Emule, Ares, Kazaa...we search and in seconds....Eureka!We click on a couple of times and it´s being downloaded. Months, maybe years of work have been put on that song. And, in a few minutes we are listening to it completely free and all the times we want. But really, who is going to spend 20 € on a CD, when you can have it for free? It´s quite evident that our society is no longer paying to listen anything. But, what would they pay for? What may encourage someone to go to the stores and buy?

Many artists have tried to offer their fans or possible new fans, unpublished material, that they couldn´t find on the internet, some failed and some succeded. But anyway, there is a group that has just hitten the nail on the head: Billy Talent.

These canadian rock band,made a simple reflexion that turned out being very effective. They thought : "Who listens our music? Youngsters; And what kind of youngsters? Youngsters who like Rock.; And what is being a complete bombshell between Youngsters who like Rock? : Guitar Hero. "

So what did Billy Talent do? They included on their new album (which reached out on July 14th on Canada) a second CD, that contains a version of all their new CD songs for Guitar Hero, but in this case they called it Guitar Villain.


The question is that over the fact that it was a brilliant idea of the group (and for sure from now on copied by more groups) the album "Billy Talent III" is scarely good. I´ll explain myself, it wouldn´t be necessary the second CD, to enjoy from the first to the last riff. The sound and letters of "Billy Talent III" are the pure reflection of youngs from the second millenium.Thirteen unpublished songs compose this album: From Devil on my shoulder, that speaks about low autoestim of teenagers(once more), to White Sparrows, a semi-balad based on the history of the death of the loved one. What´s more, it also includes themes like alcoholism(Saint Veronika), everyday decisions (Definition of destiny), and teenage love obssesion with Diamond on a Landmine (this song is so passional and real that it hurts).

Being objective, I could keep speaking about every song on the album because each one has got something to emphazise, but moreover it´s important to accentuate from this album that Billy Talent has astound us again (maybe Billy Talent II couldn´t be up to Billy Talent I, with songs like Nothing to Loose or Line and Sinker it´s quite difficult, although Surrender was excellent) and they have regain their punk freshness and that ska touch that enthralled us. There´s no doubt that again Benjamin´s high-pitched voice, D´sas angry shouts and those guitars that seem to be cursed are not going to leave you indiferrent.

Great marketing and music lessons, all combined on one CD: Billy Talent III