Day: May 5, 2020

The new album, entitled “2020”, was recorded by Bob Marlette, one of the top producers in Hard Rock. Marlette has already worked with Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie. What Vandenberg offer on “2020” are melody, power and class!

01 Shadows Of The Night
02 Freight Train
03 Hell And High Water
04 Let It Rain
05 Ride Like The Wind
06 Shout
07 Shitstorm
08 Light Up The Sky
09 Burning Heart – 2020
10 Skyfall

According to Jollett, exactly this power is also in the 12 songs: “When I played the songs – which I never wanted to publish – to my boys, we made a pact. …and we made a pact to make an album that would represent the love of rock’n’roll.”

01 Hollywood Park
02 Brother, How Was The War?
03 Carry Me
04 Come On Out
05 I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore
06 All The Children
07 Everything I Love Is Broken
08 All These Engagements
09 The Place We Meet A Thousand Feet Beneath The Racetrack
10 The Common Touch
11 The Place We Meet A Thousand Feet Beneath The Racetrack (rep
12 True

The music of Switchblade Romance is as classic as the line-up: heavy, with catchy refrain and a pinch of punk. Influences of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest or AC/DC are obvious, the eleven songs on “Old God’s Return” go forward and stay in your ears.

01 We Are One
02 Sanity & Reason
03 Leaves Counter
04 From Down Under To The Top
05 No More Limits
06 The Best Next To You
07 I Am What I Am
08 Fall In – Fall Out
09 Way Down Inside
10 Hole In My Soul
11 Send Me An Angel

Stylistically nothing has changed here of course. It rules bombastic, keyboard loaded Melodic Metal, which was strongly influenced by RAINBOW and BLACK SABBATH (Tony Martin era). Matching to this there is a crisp, crystal clear production, which brings the extraordinary vocals of Jari Tiura (ex-MSG, ex-SNAKEGOD) to bear.

01 Sinners In Shadows
02 War Torn
03 Self-proclaimed King
04 Ripple The Water
05 I Found Angels
06 Constellation
07 Caught In The Crossfire
08 Dark Side Of The Moon
09 In My Blood
10 Raise The Flag

Sometimes the throttle is really stepped on like in the opener “Fighting Man”, “Firewind” and the final track “Till The End”, then it gets groovy and midtempo like in “Broken Arrow” or “We Are Coming”. On “Hell On Earth”, ANCILLOTTI skilfully and passionately forge the traditional steel in all its facets.

01 Fighting Man
02 Revolution
03 Firewind
04 We Are Coming
05 Blessed By Fire
06 Broken Arrow
07 Another World
08 Frankenstein
09 Till The End

Steelpreacher’s musical roots, which lie somewhere between AC/DC, Motörhead, Running Wild and Mötley Crüe, prove and demonstrate with this work a very own touch, which makes the band unmistakable despite the mentioned borrowings. Devilution’ has everything to offer that makes the heart of Heavy Metal fans and Die Hard fans of the band beat faster!

01 Devilution
02 We Don’t Get Drunk
03 Rock ‘n’ Roll Children
04 Too Old For Dying Young
05 El Pollo Diablo
06 Rock ‘n’ Roll On My Mind
07 The Wild Hunt
08 Let’s Get Loaded
09 Seasons Of The Witch
10 Atlantean Dawn (ballad Version)