Kernkraftritter Records
Even in our wildest dreams
we could never have imagined that we would see an era when the 80’s metal sound
would be back for good. BOOZE CONTROL from Germany are one of these new bands
that have answered the call of traditional metal sound and they grabbed their
instruments and are ready to offer us 80’s heavy metal tunes in their own way.
THE COVER: The cover looks cool and it is sci-fi oriented. I think that
you can say that it draws inspiration from 80’s cartoons like Transformers and
movies like The Terminator. It shows the back of a female warrior that holds
guns on both hands and is ready to confront a huge robot. The painting also has
a western feeling and I mean the duel between the machine and the human.
MUSICAL STYLE: As I have written above BOOZE CONTROL is a new band
that answered the call of the 80’s heavy metal sound. If I want to be more
specific, I have to say that these guys love the N.W.O.B.H.M. sound, but they
also don’t forget that they are Germans too and so they pay their respect to
the musical legacy of their country too. In a short way I can say that BOOZE
CONTROL give us a taste of how N.W.O.B.H.M. would sound if it was created in
Germany.
COMPOSITIONS: In the sophomore release of BOOZE CONTROL that has the
straight to the point title “Heavy Metal” you will find 10 compositions of
traditional heavy metal whose their riffs and melodies are baptized in the 80’s
sound. The main characteristics of the band’s sound are the memorable twin
leads and melodies and of course the successful “marriage” between the 80’s
British and German metal sound.
CONCLUSION: The sense that BOOZE CONTROL gave me while I was
listening to their album was not of a young band that tries to imitate its
metal gods, but a band of heavy metal veterans that still have the same passion
for the heavy metal sound as in the start of their career. I think that this is
a great achievement for the band, but their greatest is this album which can
move every fan of the 80’s metal sound.
Nick “Verkaim” Parastatidis
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