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Rocket Ride is the follow-up to 2004's Hellfire Club and was recorded with producer Sascha Paeth (who also worked with the band on their Superheroes EP) and is said to feature the band's most "diverse" material to date. Includes the live bonus track 'Land Of The Miracle'. Nuclear Blast. 2006.
Personnel: Tobias Sammet (vocals); Jens Ludwig, Dirk Sauer (guitar); Miro Rodenberg (keyboards); Felix Bohnke (drums); Thomas Rettke, Amanda Somerville, Oliver Hartmann (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Sascha Paeth.
Recording information: Gate-Studios, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Photographer: Alex Kuehr.
It's easy to belittle power metal bands because they often marry portentous musical ambitions with hackneyed Manowar-like posturing that only a 12-year-old could possibly buy into; Germany's Edguy, however, are clever enough to flip those tables by making it evident that they don't take themselves all that seriously. Eight albums into the quintet's career, Edguy have in many ways succeeded where genre daddies Helloween first bit the dust -- injecting ample doses of fun, on-stage glam-metal gymnastics, Scorpions-like face pulling, and unselfconscious humor into what is normally an outwardly austere musical style, and 2006's Rocket Ride is no exception. Possibly validated even further by the recent emergence of Britain's the Darkness, this album's relaxed vibe begins with its silly-aliens-on-crack cover art and culminates in a clutch of amusing ditties about pulling birds ("Catch of the Century"), portly lovers ("Out of Vogue," "Trinidad"), and superheroes (err, "Superheroes"). On their way there, Edguy deliver a surprisingly catchy set of hard rockers ("Wasted Time," "Matrix") and unexaggerated ballads ("The Asylum," "Save Me,"), while rarely relying on power metal's primary and overly abused melodic thrash template (the title track, "Return to the Tribe"). Even the eight-minute opening "Sacrifice" is nowhere near as somber as it sounds, regardless of the majestic wall of synthesizers backing its metallic riffery. Along with the rest of Rocket Ride, this makes it almost impossible to laugh at Edguy instead of with them, and that feat in itself is quite an accomplishment. [Rocket Ride also features the live bonus track "Land of the Miracle."] ~ Eduardo Rivadavia
Rocket Ride Music Review Average Rating: (4.1 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Great Cd
First time I heard this CD I thought that Edguy had taken a step backwards in their music. But after listening to it more and getting used to it, I realize that although the CD as a whole may not be as strong as Hellfire Club, this CD has individual songs that are the best of their career! Save Me is awesome, F***ing with fire is awesome, and Sacrifice is the best song Edguy has ever made in my opinion. This CD was definitely worth the purchase.
Submitted by Joel (Edmonton, Alberta) 
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 not their best!
This is not a bad album,but why do they change their style to the likes of Bon Jovi?They had their unike sound,wich I loved,and some songs on this album is like that,but as you go towards the second half of the cd,the songs become boring hard rock.Please remain a unique band ,do not stand behind the thousands of boring rock groups.Hellfire club was a way better album.Stay with that style.
Submitted by george (canada)
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Still Awesome!!!
I've written a review for all Edguy's cds and this one deserves one as well. It's not as heavy as the earlier stuff, but Edguy is my new favorite band so its "still awesome". I grew up listening to Priest, Accept, Saxon etc... and these guys will take Metal into the next 20 years (I hope). If you liked '80s metal then give these guys a listen they will blow you away. Great muscianship and Tobias is one of the best singers I've ever heard. Old Metallica fans should love Edguy. Because if your like me...the last great Metallica cd was the black cd!!!!
Submitted by saxonfx1 (Clarkston, Wa. USA)
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Not bad, but nothing we haven't heard before. The influences are obvious: Queensryche, Helloween, Iron Maiden, Accept, Bonfire, Pretty Maids, etc.
We were spoiled in the 80's; nowadays we are so happy to hear something in that nature that we appraise way too high any band bringing back the "feeling". Oh well, it is still refreshing to hear it and they deserve the stars just for carrying the torch... :) I'd still pay to see them but they just finished the US tour and did not come to bloody Florida! :)
Submitted by mebosunot (Orlando, FL)
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incredible. Awesome stuff. Buy this CD NOW!
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Purchase Rocket Ride CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Hammerfall Crimson Thunder CD (2002)
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2002 album includes one exclusive bonus track, a cover of the KISS classic 'Detroit Rock City'. Nuclear Blast.
HammerFall: Joacim Cans (vocals); Oscar Dronjak, Stefan Elmgren (guitar, background vocals); Magnus Rosen (bass); Anders Johansson (drums).
Partially recorded at Wisselord Studios, Twilight Studios, Germany.
Personnel: Joacim Cans (vocals, background vocals); Stefan ...
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Hammerfall: Magnus Rosen (bass guitar); Joacim Cans, Anders Johansson , Oscar Dronjak, Stefan Elmgren.
Personnel: Joacim Cans (vocals, background vocals); Oscar Dronjak (guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard programming, background vocals); Stefan Elmgren (guitar, acoustic guitar); Martin Meyer (Clavinet); Patrick Benzer (keyboards, keyboard programming); Anders Johansson (drums); Rolf Kohler, Johan Aremyr (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Charly Bauerfeind.
Recording information: Lundgard Studios, Denmark (09/04/2004-10/25/2004).
Photographer: Michael Johansson.
As helpfully pointed out in the title, Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken sees Swedish metal institution Hammerfall hoisting aloft the torch of power metal (unbent, unbowed, etc.) for the fifth full-studio album of their career. But "power" metal may no longer the best tag with which to describe the band, whose material here ("Blood Bound," "Fury of the Wild," "Born to Rule," etc.) is really better ...
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Most metal magazines have rated this album "Best Of The Month" and gleefully singing its praises, like Burrrn, Metal Heart, Monster and Metal Invader.
Kamelot/The Blood Brothers: Khan (vocals); Thomas Youngblood (guitar); Glenn Barry (bass instrument); Casey Grillo (drums).
Additional personnel: Jens Johansson, Shagrath.
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Personnel: Miranda Tate, Geoff Tate, Pamela Moore, Ronnie James Dio (vocals).
Audio Mixer: Jason Slater.
Recording information: Synergy Studios, Redmond; The Annex, Menlo Park; The Compound, Seattle, WA.
Jet City pomp-metallers Queensryche left their denim-jacketed fanbase hanging for close to two decades following the release of 1988's OPERATION: MINDCRIME, a sociopolitical concept album, and the subsequent chart success of its 1990 follow-up, EMPIRE. Frontman Geoff Tate (credited here as "Leader") returns to finish the tale as if the 1990s never happened, offering up a brace of unadulterated '80s metal that, miraculously, sounds in step with where the band left off and at the same time, given early-2000s nostalgia trends, seems ahead of the curve.
Caught between the epic arena-prog of Rush and the grungy grit of Alice in Chains, Tate infuses OPERATION: MINDCRIME II with a passion and craftsmanship that virtually all his former peers have abandoned, leading the charge to bring his own music back to public adoration. ...
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Composer: Sascha Paeth.
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This seismic debut, DEVOUR THE POWER, by Destroy Destroy Destroy one-ups the recent spate of indie nostalgia metal by foregoing slower stoner tendencies and putting the focus back on lightning guitar chops, insanely fast tempos, and supreme heaviness. Adding some leather outfits and a sense of fun abandon taken from Andrew W.K.'s playbook, this Murfreesboro, Tennessee, sextet has released one of the strongest metal debuts in years. It is hard to imagine music ever getting harder or more metal than this. DEVOUR THE POWER is what Slayer's kids use to annoy their parents.
Melodic death metal and symphonic black metal (two different but closely related ways of making extreme metal more accessible) were largely European phenomena in the mid- to late '90s and early to mid-2000s -- mostly European as in Scandinavia, although Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, and various East European countries also got in on the action. Largely European, however, doesn't mean exclusively European, and Tennessee's Destroy Destroy Destroy make a respectable contribution to the melodic death metal/symphonic black metal phenomenon on Devour the Power. Like many similar bands in Sweden and Norway, ...
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