Music Review: Lillian Axe - XI: The Days Before Tomorrow Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 05:42 p.m., Saturday, February 11, 2012 The band's song writing guitarist, Steve Blaze, has crafted a set of songs that look at "life in the human zoo" sometimes with a critical passion that roars through the music, sometimes with a loving tenderness. Exposing emotions so openly is bound to make some people uncomfortable. "Take the Bullet," for example, opens with a bullet barrage from drummer Ken Koudelka that drives through to the climax. Something similar happens in "Caged In" where the music and lyrics mesh metaphorically in tonal frustration. The Louisiana ...