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GALLOGLASS "Legends From Now And Nevermore" (Limb / SPV - provided by Nordic Metal) - 4 out of 5 points - |
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Galloglass is a newcomer band from Hanover (Germany), who has provided the metal world names such as: "Scorpions, MSG and Victory". As I thought that the Power metal scene was in a point of no return I was wrong. Galloglass provide you with really high material melodic power metal which take you back to the early days of "Nocturnal Rites and Rhapsody". Carsten Frank the lead vocalist of Galloglass reminds me of the ex-singer of Nocturnal Rites - Anders Zackrisson. The music provided by Galloglass is filled with clichés all the way from old school Heavy Metal to the nowadays "Luca Turilli & Kamelot", which is not a bad combination. Secondly they have a lot of string fill inns + female vocals, which gives a perfect touch to the music, as Galloglass knows how to control and not overdue it! The opening number "Dragons Revenge" is a beautiful starter for this number filled with high speed and a lot of symphonic elements! The rest of the album is a classical power metal album, but yet again they have managed to give the genre an extra touch!
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Benjamin
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GAMMA RAY
"Majestic" (Sanctuary - provided by Target) - 4 out of 5 points - |
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Better….better…good…ok, we're where we're used to be, or at least where we were used to be in the "old" times, when Gamma Ray still made good albums (for me the last decent album was "Somewhere Out In Space"). Majestic is definitely a kick in the right direction. Kai Hansen and company has re-grown the hair on their balls, even if it's pretty un-trendy to have any kind of growth down in the area, haha. It's evident that Gamma Ray wants to make music that sounds like a modern mixture of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest - they even ripped off Judas a little bit on this album but it doesn't ruin the fact that this is a good disc that deserves much more attention than the 2 previous ones. What irritates me a little bit is that just when you have the feeling of the band making some great C-part with screaming twin guitars and some resemblance to the old Helloween Russian solo's, the whole thing is ended and another verse steps in (a little bit like the new Helloween stuff), ruining that retro feeling of a new great era for a band like Gamma Ray or its like. Well, it can't take away the smile on my face as I'm listening to this disc and wishing for another rise of the Power metal for world domination. Gamma Ray will be on tour soon…remember to catch up on them.
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Lars
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GATHERING, THE
"Home" (Sanctuary Records Group - provided by Target) - 1 out of 5 points - |
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No doubt that Anneke V. Giersbergen is the most talented female singer in the metal world today. Just too bad that she's in the most boring band out there. There'd be no reaction whatsoever from a Pakistani clerk or a taleban warrior, if The Gathering suddenly screamed "Mohammed was gay" in one of their songs, as the clerk/warrior would be safely asleep from listening to the band's lullabies. The Gathering fired off their career with "Mandylion", which was a true masterpiece (and which would have been a clear 5 on my scale). Since then, it has been one ride downhill. Today, there's more metal in Barbara Streisand. Yawn, yawn, yawn.
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Lars
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GATHERING, THE
"Home" (Sanctuary Records Group - provided by Target) - 4 out of 5 points - |
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The Gathering is this very charismatic band a lot of metal fans have highly acclaimed for years even though their unique style would take place between trip-hop and pop-rock music. It didn't take me a lot of time to be held spellbound by the very mature and strong 9th album of the dutch band. First, due by an excellent production with great guitar and keyboards arrangements (guided by René Rutten and Franck Boeijen) all differents in every songs and sustained by a very groovy and fluid rythmic section with new bass player Marjolein Kooijman whose playing fits totally with Hans Rutten drums pop grooves. And of course, Anneke Van Giersbergen vocal lines which are still so pure, tasty, warm and deep...just beautiful... The other good point of "Home" is that the listener can easily appreciate this album as a bunch of accessible songs bringing you in a journey of smooth and sensual atmospheres but listener can feel it in a different way and understand the deeper and the darker meaning of each songs too, bringing you in a state of introspection and reflexion. It was a very good surprise for me to discover this album you can compare to a work of art: first, you fall in love with the beauty of it and then, you reach a new level by understanding its meaning... Rare enough to be underlined.
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Charly Sahona - guitarist of Venturia
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GATHERING, THE "Sleepy Buildings" (Century Media - provided by Target Distribution) - 2 out of 5 points - |
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There might be a reason for this album to be called as it is. The Gathering's music has always been this kind of music that needs distortion in order to keep up the interest. All their songs without it are easily forgotten and plainly boring. Therefore Century Media and the band are shooting themselves in the famous foot by releasing a semi-acoustic live performance by the band, thus cutting out their only appealing side of the music. There are more or less songs from all the albums (I'm really not updated, since I only have "Mandylion" and "If_then_else"). I can imagine that it must have been a great night to be present, when the CD was recorded - with 25% too much dope floating around in your veins, it could almost pass for an ambience concerts, but on CD as an official release?? No sir, I don't think so.
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Lars
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GAUNTLET
"Path Of Nails" (Self-financed - provided by Gaunlet) - 1½ out of 5 points - |
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Gauntlet, well the name says it all doesn't it? If not, well don't expect that it ever will. This is a Spanish Power Heavy Rock Metal band, with their roots to the old 80's sound. But yet again, with the right producer, and the right studio, this band might have something to pull off? But to be fair and honest, it is very difficult to know what their intentions are, when you can't hear one thing from the other on the album. For you guys, I sincere hope that you'll be able to find a record label, so that we will be able to hear what your intentions are? Because what I hear occasionally isn't bad.
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Benjamin
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GILBERT, PAUL
"Space Ship One" (Mascot Records - provided by Target) - 2½ out of 5 points - |
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High school rock 'n roll with a fabulous guitarist on top, to make this product interesting. Problem is that as outrageously good and fantastic Paul Gilbert is on his instrument, the songs are a bunch of the worst compilations of crap I have heard for a long time. Why would you write high school rock songs, if you have such a talent for music? It's like having John Petrucci writing Bob Dylan or Luciano Pavarotti beginning to growl his way through some Norwegian Black metal….WASTE of talent. I guess that Paul Gilbert fans will accept this music, as long as they can hear that highlight in every song (the guitar solo + the small fills by THE MAN), but for me it takes a little more for this product to get into the higher league.
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Lars
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GIUNTINI PROJECT
"III" (Frontiers Records - provided by Zink Music) - 2½ out of 5 points - |
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What's wrong with having a "band" these days? Why does every goddamn guitar player need to do a "project" ??? Anyway, this is the Italian guitarist Aldo Giuntini doing his 3rd solo disc, and like on the previous disc of his, he've chosen to use ex-Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin to be the voice in front. Not a bad choice considering that Tony has one of the best hard-rock voices in the world (in my humble opinion). Musically we're talking about melodic hard rock, somewhere in the no-mans-land between Black Sabbath's 80's and 90's releases, a good deal of Rainbow, a bit of Malmsteen, hints of TNT and also reminds me a lot of The Cage. Actually, it's no real surprise to see that it reminds of The Cage, as the album has been produced by Dario Mollo (who along with Tony Martin were behind that project) - small world, huh? There are some good songs, and some very nice guitar playing by Aldo on this disc, but the sad thing about it, is that the album's best song is "Anno Mundi" which is actually a song off the "Tyr" album by Black Sabbath …
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Claus
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GOATSNAKE
"Goatsnake" (Southern Lord - provided by VME) - 2 out of 5 points - |
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Stoner rock, with a horrible sound. The lead singer is pretty much singing on odd tunes which could make this album special, but due to the lack of proper production, it all seems messy and un-professional. There is some kind of originality in the songs and that's why it doesn't end up in the lowest end of the scale. The band is really un-tight, but I'm not really sure if this is on purpose or not? To my ears it just becomes irritating and I wanna throw the disc very far away, but since I'm a civilized human being, I hear the entire disc several times and let the band know that they probably should practise some more and get another producer. Then it would be tolerable for my ears. But hey - Goatsnake is not put into this world to please me, so if you like stoner rock, you might want to check out this one???
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Lars
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GOD
"Hell & Heaven" (Khaeotica Productions - provided by Khaeotica) - 1 out of 5 points - |
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Oh my God, it's true - there really is a band in existance, who actually think it's cool to have a name like GOD!!! I never thought I'd see that happening, but here it is. Okay, I'm done laughing now, and ready to get straight onto the music of the disc "Hell & Heaven" (hehehehe, sorry … but seriously, "Hell & Heaven"? Hehehehe). Musically God has decided on a very very strange blend of Amon Amarth style viking metal (ehmmm … the band is half Romanian/half Portuguese), power metal with keyboards (think Virgin Steele), some gothic/black mixture (think Moonspell) and some true Manowar'ish heavy metal stuff added as the last spicey ingredient. Oh, and I haven't even mentioned that the last track is a alternate biker/power metal version of the second song on the album, done with a singer who could battle with Gerritt P. Muntz (Sacred Steel) for the honour of being THE worst vocalist in heavy metal. Does it sound any good? Nope. Is it interesting? Well yeah - at least it's fun to listen to the first time. There you have it, this is what God decided to create on the eight day after having finished with the universe … it goes to prove that too much sparetime really isn't healthy. Thank God for heavy metal - this is the only place in the entire music scene you can experience something as absurd.
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Claus
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GODIVA
"Call Me Under 666" (LMP / SPV - provided by Target) - 2 out of 5 points - |
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Every singer's nightmare: to enter a band that makes all the verses in one tone…."hey Fernando - sing in this note for the next minute…and of course, we can also make all the refrains in one tone if you want it"?? Godiva is such a band, and there's not much to write about. The songs are plain heavy metal and they are in general pretty boring, with the vocalist (Fernando Garcia - ex-Victory) being the only one to keep up a decent level of performance, though high pitching a bit too much (and obviously doesn't care about being in tune in "When Lightning Strikes" and other songs as well). I'm not saying that the other guys can't play their instruments. I'm just saying that they don't show it on this album…..booooring.
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Lars
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GOREROTTED "Only Tools and Corpses" (Metal Blade - provided by Target Distribution) - ½ out of 5 points - |
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My first thought to this was what the f'*** is this? But after a few spins I realized that I still don't know what it is? GOREROTTED is a joke band signed to a major label, and what a joke this is! The first signs that this is a joke band is that GOREROTTED are scared to use their own names, their names are as follows: GORESKIN - low vocals, MR GORE - hid/mid vocals, FLUFFY OFALSTENCH - guitar, ROBIN PANTS - guitar, THE WILSON - bass, Junky JON - DRUMS. There is no doubt that they know how to handle their instruments, beyond the meaningless screams and growls that appear constantly on this album! But everything on this album is a joke to the old school death metal that once ruled the metal scene. For an example take their song titles: Hacked in the Back and Dumped in a Sack, Can't Fit Her Limbs in the Fridge or Fuck Your Ass With Broken Glass, this is just to unserious to be taken serious. But yet again I'm amazed how they do handle their instruments, they sure can play their instruments in such speed I thought was impossible! Nevertheless this doesn't make their music any good, but I'm convinced that this is joke that is not yet to be revealed otherwise this is some of the worse crap that I have led my ear to. This album is to be described as untamed, uncontrolled splatter/grind/death with froggy vocals!!! I'm looking forward to see the announcement from Metal Blade who made a joke on us all. The ½ is given for the good production.
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Benjamin
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GORILLA MONSOON
"Damage King" (Armageddon Music - provided by Target) - 1½ out of 5 points - |
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Un-tight Black Sabbath / Stoner Rock inspired noise. This is a test in how long you can exploit the same riff on a whole, without people knowing it, and at the same time having a drummer that is extremely un-tight, but trying to hide it behind the looseness of the genre in which you play, and smothering the vocals in effects to hide that the lead singer can't really sing. I am not fooled. Test failed. Try again, after rehearsing some more.
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Lars
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GRAVE
"As Rapture Comes" (Century Media - provided by EMI) - 2½ out of 5 points - |
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Let it be known to the world that in all my shame I have never spent that much time with Grave, which is a band that has made quite a name for themselves on the death metal scene. So when listening to this new album by Swedish death metal legends Grave I don't get any nostalgic thoughts. From what I have heard by Graves back catalogue it was death metal, like only the Swedes can do it; Brutal, aggressive and really heavy, and I can't say that this album is much different. Surely it sounds like the band is getting more melodic and the production on this album is "chunky" and brutal, just the way I love it. The albums ticks in at 41:13, and that is simply too long for a death metal album, and you quickly grow tired of listening to such a generic album like As Rapture Comes is. What especially bothers me is that you can't really point out any songs from the others, besides that each song has its "catchy" or "groovy" part, which reminds me a lot of many metalcore acts. Not that this is metalcore, but the basic idea is the same. Either way, this is death metal which is actually very well done, but just gets boring after 2 tracks. Being as picky as I am, I can't find any reason to put this album on again in a month or two.
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Mads
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GRAVE DIGGER
"Last Supper" (Nuclear Blast - provided by VME) - 4 out of 5 points - |
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Germany's most productive power metal band - Grave Digger - are releasing yet another great heavy metal album. I don't get it though; how come bands such as Helloween, Blind Guardian or Running Wild have to spend between 2½ and 5 years between albums, when a band like Grave Digger can release one great disc after each other, with only 1 year in between? Oh well, so more kudo's to Chris B and his army of tomb digging men for succeeding where others fail. "The Last Supper" is yet another piece of true heavy f***ng metal, as only these guys can do it. Sing-a-long choruses with big choirs, stomping metal anthems, great solos and of course Chris' "mean-and-rough" voice to top it all. Is this album any different from the previous albums by Grave Digger? Well, yes and no. Luckily the band is still playing what they do best, but I also feel they've toned down the power metal clichees a bit, and gone for a more straight forward heavy metal (old school?) sound. In fact, I feel this disc resembles the last album by Saxon in many ways (not only because Chris B and Biff B sounds quite alike here and there, but also due to the laid back HM sound). "The Last Supper" is a concept album about ... well yeah, you guessed it ... and although I personally think this is a stupid concept (being the pagan spirit I am :-)), it actually adds some cool atmosphere to the disc. I definitely like this album quite a lot, and if you're a metal fan (duuh, why else would you even read this far?), then you'll most likely appreciate this disc as well.
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GRAVE DIGGER "Rheingold" (Nuclear Blast - provided by VME) - 3½ out of 5 points - |
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Grave Digger seems to finally have outgrown their somewhat childish stature as a power metal band with some potential, but too many heavy metal clichés and a (by many people judged) horrible singer. It was great back in the eighties when Grave Digger started out, cause there weren't really that many other good bands in this style then, but throughout the nineties their music became more and more hilarious, and besides the surprisingly good "Tunes Of War" disc (1997) I didn't care much for them until 1½ year ago when they released the DAMN GOOD "The Grave Digger" album. In many ways "Rheingold" continues the style set forth on "The Grave Digger", meaning heavy as fuck power metal, cool melodies and pounding drumbeats. But what differs a bit from their last disc, and what makes me only give "Rheingold" a 3½ out of 5 score, is the idiotic concept … seriously, no self-respecting band should try to do a metal-version of Wagner's "The Ring Of The Nibelungs".
Yeah, it is a majestic concept with swords and dragons, and as such really captures the essence of heavy metal, but no way it can be done properly on a metal album. Oh well - forget the concept and enjoy the music. It really is good stuff.
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Claus
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GRAVEWORM
"(N)Utopia" (Nuclear Blast - provided by VME) - 3 out of 5 points - |
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This is yet another act of Graveworm, and a new depth has been added to the music!!! Let me put it is this way that my expectations for this album wasn't sky high, but nevertheless I thought that I'll give them a second chance. I must admit that much have happened since their previous album, and this is in the positive direction. The music that they provide on "(N)Utopia" is much more well written, and composed almost to perfection. The music has been added a good deal of keyboards, which gives the music a more dark atmospheric sense to it all. The vocals has also been intensified with a dark brutal growl, and a Black Metal scream has been added as well which gives the music more depth! But on top of that it has a tendency of become very predictable, there are not many surprises. Secondly the keyboard should have a bit more influence instead of just chords that flows over the music, but this could be considered as a minor thing seen as a whole! In general this album is what I would describe as a good listenable album.
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GRAVEWORM "Engraved in Black" (Nuclear Blast - provided by VME) - 1½ out of 5 points - |
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I have never had the hots for black metal although bands like Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth at times deliver some okay musical parts. German Graveworm is a symphonic black metal band in the vein of Cradle of Filth, so I guess some of Graveworms elements must okay also - and they are, without being great, though. "Engraved in Black" is their fourth full length cd release since 1997, but since I'm not into this black metal stuff and since I have never heard Graveworm before, I am not the one to decide whether "Engraved…" is better or poorer than the previous releases. But I can tell you this; Sabine Mair (keys) is quite good looking :-) Other than that the music is characterized by the typical kind of symphonic black metal with raging double bass drums, grinding guitars, screaming vocals with occasional growling and supporting keyboards in minor to make the music dark, scary and moving in the horror kind of way. I have to accentuate, though, the song "Thorns of Desolation" which is a fantastic instrumental track with bagpipes as the dominating instrument. It is very well performed and has a moody and emotional expression to it, which make it very listenable even for people who are not into this black metal thing. Finally I want to mention that Graveworm has chosen to do a cover track, and their choice fell on R:E:M's "Losing my Religion". You have to hear it in order to imagine what a black metal version of this song sounds like!
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GREAT DECEIVER, THE "Terra Incognito" (Peaceville - provided by VME) - 3 out of 5 points - |
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Former members of At The Gates and Diabolique are the backbone of this Swedish metal band, so I guess it's safe to assume we'll find a cool Gothenburg-death metal outburst here, right? Well, NO! This is hard-core, thrash and progressive rock mixed together in a very unique blend. Imagine what would happen if Mary Beats Jane, Prong, King Crimson and occasionally a bit of Slayer were all blended together … the outcome might be The Great Deceiver. The production is superb and heavy as hell - hey, it's a Daniel Bergstrand production, so we couldn't get it any less - and the songs are all quite dark in mood, making it a real "mood-killer" of an album. You definitely don't want to put this on if you're not prepared for having the darkest corners of your mind exposed. My only beef with this album is that it's just not the musical style I usually prefer listening to, and even though I can find lots of good things to say about the disc, it's not one I'll be listening much to in the future.
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GREEN CARNATION
"The Quiet Offspring" (Season Of Mist - provided by VME) - 2 out of 5 points - |
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Green Carnation delivers a sterling piece of melodic rock with an attitude. Actually I sometimes come to think of Danish the rockers D:A:D when I listen to "The Quiet Offspring" and that's a very positive comparison to those of you who are unaware of the works of D:A:D. The melodies on "The Quiet Offspring" are catchy and the guitar riffs are delivered with conviction. Keyboards give the album a nice atmospheric touch and bring level up a notch. But in general Green Carnation are nothing out of the ordinary and tend to just blend in the flooding sea of talented rock bands.
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GRIFFIN "No Holds Barred" (FaceFront Records - provided by VME) - 4 out of 5 points - |
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It's pretty rare that FaceFront Records releases albums that we get to review, but when they do, it's very high quality. Griffin (a Norwegian band) plays old school hard rock, some "stoner rock" and spices it all up with a touch of power metal. It's not really like Gamma Ray, Helloween or Blind Guardian … there's just small parts of the power metal style in the guitars, amidst the cool and "stoned" rhythms of the bass/drum section. All musicians are very talented and I cannot pinpoint one that stands out from the others. I have no info sheet so I don't know if the band is old or new, but I definitely believe they have a future, if they are able to continue releasing this kind of interesting quality. "No Holds Barred" is really worth a listen, and if I'm not caught up entirely in the 80's, then I'm actually sure you can download a song or 2 on their webpage; www.griffin.no.
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GRIP INC. "Incorporated" (Steamhammer / SPV - provided by Scanbox Entertainment) - 4 out of 5 points - |
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I have been waiting for what seems a thousand years for Grip Inc. to release something new, and actually I had made up my mind that the band was long gone and buried. Well, as Waldemar Sorychta (guitarist and main man) says: When recording becomes a matter of routine, it no longer makes sense". It certainly is correct, and that's why we've had to wait 5 long years for this one. So has Grip Inc. really improved? Compared to the last album "Solidify" - YES. But compared to the first 2 albums "Power Of Inner Strength" and "Nemesis", I really can't see the improvement. Yep, the songs are very aggressive and the extremely fantastic production is also how it's supposed to be. I just do not find the whole album worth listening to from one end to other. Dave Lombardo is as always smashing the skins, as tight as George Bush's asshole in the shower of a homosexual prison, the riffin' is clear and cleverly composed. The vocals are violent and screaming (though Gus Chambers is actually singing on this release), but there's something missing for this album to become a masterpiece like the 2 first releases. We need the songs that you keep on returning to - the songs that make you put on the album again and again - the songs that makes you listen to the rest of the songs just once more in order to find out if it wasn't you that was wrong the first time. So why am I giving this release 4? Simply because Grip Inc. is SO much better than 99% of anything else emerging in this genre today. Because these guys are the old heroes that return and kick us in the face with sweaty and groovy songs that make us happy. It's just not the masterpiece I expected :-(
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GUN BARREL "Battle-tested" (SPV Records - provided by Nordic Metal) - 3 out of 5 points - |
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Once again Gun barrel is shooting their way through their own special version of dirty-power-metal Motörhead/Saxon/AC/DC". This is something that in no way is genius - but the guys keeps themselves within their limits and delivers quite a few tracks where you just cant stop moving you legs - perfect roll on down the highway with no worries in the world. With Guido Feldhausen's raw whiskey vocals, it's really nice with a few chorus parts to lift the atmosphere from a complete Motörhead level. Also a few tracks raise the band from pure dirty rock'n'roll - like "Rebel Tune" which almost got epic proportions. From what I heard on CD it should be one of the best dirty-rock metal bands currently.
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Erik
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GUDDAL/MATTE "Genesis For Two Grand Pianos" (Inside Out/SPV - provided by Nordic Metal) - no points possible - |
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What a weird, yet beautiful, release. I've never heard of Yngve Guddal and Roger T. Matte, but these two Norwegian pianists have by this one disc won themselves a huge spot in my heart. Personally, I've always loved the 70's and early 80's prog-rock albums that British super-band Genesis recorded, such as "Duke", "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", "A Trick Of The Tail" etc., so to hear two incredibly talented pianists making total stripped-down versions of songs from these great discs by only using their grand pianos, is simply an experience one can't be without. What we get here are the songs "The Fountain Of Salmacis" (from "Nursery Crime" '71), "Can-Utility And The Coastliners" (from "Foxtrot" '72), "Mad Man Moon" (from "A Trick Of The Tail" '76), "One For The Wine" (from "Wing And Wuthering " '77), "Down And Out" (from "And Then There Were Three" '78), "Duke's Travels" (from "Duke" '80) and finally "Evidence" (which was used as b-sides and also featured on the US version of the '82 live album "Three Sides Live"). Well, I guess it's quite evident that none of these songs were big hits for the band - this is the more obscure and somewhat forgotten titles, but with Guddal and Matte breathing new life into them, they open up to something out-of-this world beautiful. The label (Inside Out) writes in their info-sheet that this album is a must for all fans of Genesis. Well, I'd take it so far to say that every fan of classical, prog rock, atmospheric music and even just a music-lover in general should at least listen to this album once. It truly is THAT beautiful.
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GURD
"Bang!" (Dockyard1 - provided by VME) - 3 out of 5 points - |
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I never was a big fan of Biohazard, Machine Head or Prong, so it's a bit hard for me to give this album the full credit it probably deserves, as it is a mixture of these 3 bands. Gurd is offering their 8th album, and I can't put my finger on anything, regarding the musicianship, production or attitude here. It is a good blend of groovy thrash, speedy aggressiveness and genuine kick in the face mosh. The thing is, though, that all the songs seem redundant in my ears, as if there was not really enough material for a whole album and the band filled in with riffs that are not interesting enough to stand out as sublime. I guess that a 90'ies shouting metal fan would probably rate this album a bit higher than I do, so take this review with a grain of salt and give the band a chance.
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“Gypsy Rose” (Escape Music – provided by Atenzia) - 1½ out of 5 points – |
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This stuff is quite bland, and I don’t even know what to write about it – except that it’s basically a mixture of sleezy hard rock (Wasp and Motley Crue) and a heavy dose of old school heavy metal (Dokken, Pretty Maids and Scorpions), but without the same charm and quality as any of the aforementioned. My main problem with the disc however, is not as much the music (since it at least has got a certain “drive” that makes it somewhat cool), but instead the vocalist who sounds like an even more “rrrrrrrr”-rolling version of Klaus Meine from Scorpions. Whenever a singer has that much vibrato on his voice, it’s usually a sign of him not being able to keep the right note, and thus vibrating himself up-and-down to make sure he is at least somewhat in tune. And in the case of Håkan Gustafsson of Gypsy Rose, I’m quite sure that theory holds perfectly well up. In short – the band shows some potential within the genre they’ve chosen, and especially Martin Kronlund is a good guitarist, but the singer needs to go in order for the band to evolve. And when I say “go” I mean right about NOW!
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