CRITICAL
SOLUTION – Sleepwalker
Punishment
18 Records
Norway
is a country connected with the black metal since they have one of the strongest
and most influential scenes in the world. It seems, though, that Norway is not
only about black metal. CRITICAL SOLOUTION which are from Norway are here to
state to us that you can also be dark and aggressive by playing a different
style of metal.
“Sleepwalker”
is the sophomore release of the band and as they state, this is a more
complicated album from their debut which was entitled “Evil Never Dies” and it
was a straight forward thrash metal album (I have already presented it on our
zine). Here the band tries to mix things and enrich its thrash metal sound with
traditional metal elements. Also the album is based on a horror story they have
invented (I think it is a concept album, although I don’t have the lyrics) and
try to make their sound atmospheric. I know that words like atmospheric give
most of us goose bumps and we have connected it with such words as boring, but
this is not the case. CRITICAL SOLOUTION are in their core an 80’s metal
influenced bands and when they mean atmosphere they have in their minds bands
like MERCYFUL FATE and KING DIAMOND. Actually, in my opinion a perfect way to
describe their sound is to imagine MERCYFUL FATE mainly and KING DIAMOND
playing bay area thrash metal. After all the participation of Michael Denner
and Hank Shermann as guests on this album prove, in a way, my words.
The
compositions on this album are well balanced between their thrash and heavy
metal parts and a great work has been done on the solos and guitar lead parts.
The production is dynamic and very natural and it helps the listener to listen to
the album in every detail. Finally CRITICAL SOLUTION sound as a well tight and
experienced band with an enthusiasm for what they do. They definitely have
something that makes them differ from other thrash metal bands of our days.
Nick
“Verkaim” Parastatidis
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