AXEL RUDI PELL: "Knights Call" Review Steamhammer ‎– SPV 2018

Knights Call: Album by Axel Rudi Pell,Brand new album 2018 from the German guitar virtuoso.Teutonic Heavy Metal at it's best.‘Knights Call’ is Pell’s seventeenth release since leaving Steeler in 1989

Tracklisting:

THE MEDIEVAL OVERTURE (INTRO)

THE WILD AND THE YOUNG

WILDEST DREAMS

LONG LIVE ROCK

THE CRUSADERS OF DOOM

TRUTH AND LIES

BEYOND THE LIGHT

SLAVES ON THE RUN

FOLLOW THE SUN

TOWER OF BABYLON

Its true that here it has too much cliche, but thats the kind "cliche teutonic metal", take it or leave it.

As a band AxRuPe will be blamed for lack of inspiration, due to easy concepts regards compositions and that in metal industry follows recipes and formulas standardized, especialy Axel will be accused by collumnists first as typical and market estimator who always raises with the reward (that why sounds, boring),cause of that every two years makes a corporate album ,as he follows the ready-made recipes stolen from godfather guitarists like Tony Iommi and Richie Blackmore creating his songwriting from Tony Martin Sabbath senssion and Dio "heaven & hell" Sabbath circa, while biggest indictment is that rebuilding his own tracks from Rainbow's Stargazer identical just changing titles.

Due to all these, according to these accuses, Axel had to make his own album indefinitely and unpredictably no longer longer than 2 years, still ,(accused) not to have a stable genre of expression but to playing as a teenage college band sometimes Punk othertimes some power metal and sometimes afew progressive ballads for the chics not to follow a stable mark , and would be honest if played something abstract like Nirvana, or something more funk like Fozzy for better like Faith No More, or like Beastie Boys and must having verse realistic and politicized all these about knights and swords are fascistic culture, fostering racism and violence,that says A.R.P,s accusators in their reviews, that his album is a conservative halloween, a shame for progressive artists, is against sinister art and makes music to go backward to the dark era of after-vietnam bands and narcotic culture.

Since mid-2000 Ax.Ru.Pe. was an old-fashioned traditional figure,then was making potential way their songs performing .Since then they have been stepped on, to petrified steps, that left Deep Purple and Scorpions while adding some tougher tone to them.

Now and then sounded the spesific Eighties 80ties brand genre Purple/Def Lepard/ Ozzy,early Malmsteen (trilogy / risingforce), due to ex-drummer Mike Terrana who was a fast potent drummer, has an ability to drift all other instruments in his own pace,always in rage , was pare to punk outfit , also vocals from former singers Charlie Huhn later Rob Rock were too American much mid-pitched a very halford 'expression early albums like Wild Obsession Nasty Reputation / Eternal Prisoner

In regards current drummer Bobby Rodinelli is ideal percasionist for old classic ,at mid tempo power metal using single case drums ,playing strong, rhythmic , accompanies rest of the instruments, doesn't prompted pace to be excite rhythm section for drift or precede the tempo so fills the sound better leaving guitar's lead and solos to be heard more clearly,and more space to be voiced lyrics.

(track-02) "The Wild and The Young : prelud intro pulls out guitar in a persistent prolonged riff,while grandiose melodic rhythm prevails,above the chorus all pattern changes and then resume, circumstance similar to Scorpions hits ,rather sorrowful song, but rouses.

Johnny Gioelli is a second class singer he hasn't some shocking voice in high octaves,but performs like an outstanding actor in an AOR metal band a top interpretator to render lyrics and coloured them in red verses and meanings.

(track-03)"Wildest Dreams": is adjusted in a Ronnie James Dio pedestal thanks to Gioelli shout,it's topic has like as internal conversation something poetic for upcoming future wich contradicted later ,a melody that makes tension,cymbal beats next to huge riffs,rhythm switches back to turn on senses.

(track-5) "The Crusaders of Doom" : Is a song somewhat depressing it's motif reminds like a bunch of guys wearing hoods are walking slowly for secret gathering,also the atmosphere is a little dark ,close to Ballad kind, majestic as mooves in Mid Tempo all speeds are down, an epic track as this was defined by 'Rhapsody', 'Manowar', 'Savatage' , it's melodicity rests on a sound wall made by the syntheseiser of Ferdy Dornberg he did it in this way, to be stand in for choir.

The vocals and the interpretation of Gianni Gioelli is the lever that goes it even taller ,man's singing narratie match to hollywood spielberg . The guitar melodic solos is a reminiscent of Sabbath the circa Tony Martin, his subject matter is medieval expedition, with it's slow beat performance has mixed something from archaeological and ancient in film about sword and riding ...

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