ШВЕЙЦАРИЯ

Состав группы:

Mark Fox - Vocals
Thomas Muster- Guitars
Thom Blunier - Guitars
Oli Linder - Bass
Roger Tanner - Drums

композиции:

1.Make Your Day 3:52
2.Inferno 4:01
3.The One 4:21
4.Playing with Fire 4:49
5.Dance with Madness 3:34
6.Love Will Find A Way 3:56
7.Vertigo 4:14
8.The Conquest 4:12
9.Higher Love 3:53
10.Cardiophobia 3:36
11.Look at Me 4:07
12.The Other Side 4:13
13.Let'em Have It (bonus track) 3:25
14.Acheron's Way 4:11

общее время 61:37

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Written by Nightwalker on September 16th, 2007
While hard rock is as good as dead and heavy metal has passed beyond its highest point, a band like Shakra is always a refreshment. An old school atmosphere, a true hard rock mentality and even live they blew away a complete audiance during their passing through in 2005. Not that HammerFall and Stratovarius weren't any good, but Shakra had left an impression that would stick by longer then the double-headlining bill itself.
On "Infected", their latest album, they just keep on practicing the same old formula - and when it still works, why not? When the first song "Make Your Day" kicks off the album, the melodic hard rock flies right back like in the days of old. An atmosphere like Praying Mantis and the more modern influences of Axxis is what Shakra uses to start and finish off the album. Even the more Bon Jovi-like songs (like "Love Will Find a Way") have such a great atmosphere, that fans of the genre almost can't deny that it doesn't remind them of the times that Aerosmith and Def Leppard were at their highest peak! When a song like "Cardiophobia" blows out of the speakers, it's almost impossible to sit still and stay quiet. The solo's are being played by a very talented musician and the vocals are just what a band like this needs - old school and nostalgic, though full of passion, emotion, sentiment and melody. A bit like a Peter de Wint from Switzerland, 'cause not just once the band reminds me of one of de Wint's projects: Mystery. On every bright side there's a down side though. The promo version of the album uses fades to knit the songs together, wheredue a lot of the atmosphere goes lost. I can understand why they would do such a thing, but I hope they also realise that it's not that easy to review an album, when a song that normally clocks over nine minutes stopts already on four minutes on their promo.
Anyway, I've gotten the main idea, and this album is worth buying for about everyone who enjoys melodic hard rock in the vein of Praying Mantis and Axxis. But also fans from Edguy to Aerosmith, and from Crossfire to Bon Jovi should give them a chance! Great work!

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