Slaughter - Back to Reality
8.0 von 10 Punken
Erscheinungsjahr
1999
Label
Chrysalis
Besetzung
Gesang: Mark Slaughter
Gitarre: Jeff Blando
Bass: Dana Strum
Schlagzeug: Blas Elias
Gitarre: Jeff Blando
Bass: Dana Strum
Schlagzeug: Blas Elias
Tracklist
01. Killin Time
02. All Fired Up
03. Take Me Away
04. Dangerous
05. Trailer Park Boogie
06. Love Is Forever
07. Bad Groove
08. On My Own
09. Silence Of BA
10. Headin For A Dream
11. Nothin Left To Lose
02. All Fired Up
03. Take Me Away
04. Dangerous
05. Trailer Park Boogie
06. Love Is Forever
07. Bad Groove
08. On My Own
09. Silence Of BA
10. Headin For A Dream
11. Nothin Left To Lose
Datum: 24.03.2005 - Autor Odette
Englisch:
Slaughter has already a insanity career behind them. If you want to believe it or not, they are still alive, even if we nothing heard from them in the last few years, at least not in Europe. In America tour the guys still wild with Dokken, Cinderella, Ratt & Co by the country around. They are also no longer appreciated so openly in the melodicrock scene because of the various sound chancings but they are still for me, number one in the rockscene. I don't find changes bad at all either and they prove this to us with their in the meantime seventh album „Back To Reality“. The music style is for certain no longer so slushily, however with a tremendous energy hammer they themselves into my ears. After the terrible accidental death of their guitarist Tim Kelly 1998 was it surely not easy for the band. Who wouldn't understand the pain to lose a person, you loved and liked. As a sustitute came Jeff Blando and this with unerring success. So were Mark, Dana, Blas and Jeff a great quartett again. Even if the music still seems so loaded, they will be never thrown into the divisions Powermetal or Progressive Metal. The whole album simply makes the unmistakable scratchy voice Mark´s together with the mating of Dana´s wild bass, Jeff´s dirty guitar and Blas´s bombastic drums-playing out. A very great effect! You will still recognize some songs like „Killin Time“, „All Fired Up“, „Dangerous“ or „Nothin Left To Lose“ to songs of their mega-albums „Stick It To Ya“ and „Wild Life“ but with the only difference, that Mark yells so highly anymore and his voice sounds better. „Take Me Away“ sounds great. Jeff´s dirty way of playing the guitar remember me strongly of Zakk Wylde and already make the song just of that, to a class song. To „Trailer Park Boogie“ you hear also strange sounds. You think first the song begins as a hymn, it changes then from the fast picked, strange guitarsound into thundered guitars and strangely fast talk, instead of singing. To „Bad Groove“ they wind in esotericism and alternate into the groovy. Of course the ballads „ Love Is Forever“, and „On My Own“ may not be missing. „Headin For A Dream“ and „Nothin Left To Lose“ are beautiful fellow travellers. With the great Instrumentalsong „Silence Of Ba“ a smooth diversion is provided. Who has nothing heard or known of Slaughter till now must have dreamt, slept or were not susceptible. It´s a pity, this music rocks like hell and is still very good. You should, at the latest now, get yourself an album of them!





