Lipservice - Gotthard

Advantages: Ground Breaking Album
Disadvantages: None

...that each instrumentalist knew what the other was doing at any and every instant, and that gives the music an unbelievable focus that takes the energy already produced and squares it. As quickly as it started, however, the bludgeoning ceases and we’re into the second track, "Children of the Damned". An idea based loosely around the film of the same name it starts quietly with some arpeggio guitar work that builds some sinister tension. Of course you know by the time the chorus hits it’s all going to be blown into oblivion and it is, by some towering, doom-laden Tony Iommi-style riffwork. Right away, we see that more than lipservice is being paid to tonality and the use of contrast in songwriting. Rather than hammer away for 40 minutes they opted to use a full range of sounds and atmosphere throughout the entire album, a tribute... Read review

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