-TOWER OF BABEL- : "Lake Of Fire" (review) Lion Music 2017

Heavy rockers Tower Of Babel, featuring guitar shredder Joe Stump (Raven Lord, Holyhell) and vocalist Csaba Zvekan (Exorcism, Raven Lord, Metal Machine) will release their debut long player “Lake Of Fire” through Lion Music. The record was produced by Csaba Zvekan and Joe Stump and recoded at various places. Artwork was created by Gragoth. Singer and producer of the record Csaba Zvekan comments: “Here is another great long player we done for those who crave the classic rock in modern package. We’ve been working on this record for quite some time now. Just so all is perfect for you. Now it’s finally time to reveal the release date. It’s a great record we’re all proud to be a part of." Joe Strump, guitar shredder and producer, also comments: “Me and vocalist Csaba Zvekan work and write well together and we're both massive fans of the classic Dio era Rainbow period. So kind of our modern take on that and the type of partnership that both Dio and Blackmore had in relation to their approach to composing together. It's not too deep conceptually going, just channelling my influences and combining my guitar work inside very musical and listenable classic hard rock and metal tunes. I wanted it to appeal to my core fanbase who of course buy my records to hear me play guitar but also to fans of classic hard rock and European power metal as well.

List of songs

1. Dragonslayer 2. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll 3. Lake Of Fire

4. Addicted 5. Midnight Sun 6. Eternal Flames 7. Once Again 8. Stardust 9. Eyes Of The World 10. Lamb And The Wolves 11. Thoth 12. All Out Warfare

This albut was prepared for along,long, time,well.......Most metal session musicians give the best and the more  successful albums in our days, the most successful albums made by  those professional session bum mercenaries of studios who on their finance anguish are forced to earm money for living,playing and recording by accident anything catching and girlish metal, or Harry Potter's riffs only to grab some cash ,but accidentally give songs that excite  masses, while they are under pressure and supervision of some labels authorized producer..!(usually labels employees after all, pay in steamy cash, hand to hand) The case 'Lake Of Fire'  has an unjustified mistake regarding the outward appearance of frontcover cause is a splay junk made under rush at photoshop graphics ,shows a horrible castle figure and in the middle mixed and a skull,a teenage sketchiness under the pressure of deadline dates and labels orders about finance spences due to low budget cost and huge dates rushes,   ----- Concerning the "lake of fire" stuff, Isn't something  that reminding some boogie metal genre like Status Quo or Bad Company motifs old good hippie hooks and horuses,no!!, but  happens to sounds like  Dio's  covers from "The Last in Line" and "Holy Diver" some memorable hits, the Tower of Babel guys  persist to follow this way of Dio's heavy tradition,and most tracks compositions have been written as some sort of imitation  Yngwie Malmsteen's way act and playing, as guitarist Joe Stump was apprenticed to Blackmoore's school, however plays tougher and faster than his "virtual mentor" and more complicated, to all album plays a tone of excessive long-long solos and metallic neoclassical riffs motifs.     (mind to me a special comparison could be with  germans "Carsten Lizard Schulz Syndicate" or the greeks  "Mystery (Perlepes)" and the "Yakis George"band)

about some of the front tracks (first track 01) "Dragon Slayer": an outburst song,the prelude is flaming guitar chords below continuance reminds Yngwie Malmsteen's early albums a)Rising Force and b)Marching Out,such as stormy drums and  rhythm section,while Stump's guitar making riffs gunpowder bursts,in the meantime the yelling macho microphone from Csaba Zvekan is a singing voice combination in between Lemmy style and Dio way (second track 02) "Its Only Rock'n'Roll":potential rhythm and melodic,it rolls like mid tempo pace ,not much fast, like faithful Rainbow's copycover the named old track "Down to Earth" from 1979 same name album,and keyboards maestro 'Mistheria' brings from timeboat and timeboards at 1979 Don Airey's act and replicates  that faithfully,vocalist Csaba Zvekan exactly reproduce Graham Bonnet's interpretation since then. (03rd track): "Lake Of Fire"  the riffs fall ceaselessly,in regards guitar solos are endlessly,potential bone rhythm under horse galloping,an honest Ritchie Blackmore's formula under Zvenkan emancipation,once upon a time when  producer was Martin Birch and Ronnie James Dio on microphone, the well known vintage hit 'Snake Charmer' or best-known rock-clubs cheelplay "Black Sheep of the Family", perfect virile interpretation by the fixed voice of Csaba Zvekan,rage air and burr ,these students of Blackmore are superior to the teacher (05 track): "Midnight Sun": the 1982 "Death Alley Driver" with radical changes much more abruptly much more explosive,making his bulky riffs,Joe Stump's guitar touches the finality ape the haunted blackmore and Joe Lynn Turner on Svekan's microphone!! maybe  best song from the album.

Is a solid band all members are professional session musicians,the guitarist is wanking all the time,so this kind is for very strong ears.Its songwriting is studied and prepared pretty good long time before, is going to blow away many audiences

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