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Line-up:
Jorn Lande – Vocals
Roland Grapow
– Guitar
Uli Kusch – Drums
Jan. S. Eckert – Bass
Axel Mackenroot
– Keys
Release Date:
24 January, 2005
Tracklist:
1. Crimson Rider
2. Back For My Life
3. Wounds
4. I’m Not Afraid
5. Headbanger’s Ballroom
6. After This War
7. Into The Arena
8. Dark From The Dying
9. Falling Sparrow
10. Black In The Burn
11.
Treasure World
(Bonus Track)
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Surprise Of January 2005 |
Fans of the super-band Masterplan
stop being anxious! Masterplan are back and released an album that
will lead you straight to the stores again! Those who have listened
to the amazing debut album know what to expect from the band. As the
rest, do not loose any more time, because you will surely love them
and you ought to know the band that will star in the metal scene the
forthcoming years! This album is more mature than their debut,
meaning that you will have to listen to it several times in order to
get into it.
This album has only one straight catchy song (“Back For
My Life”) and that’s why the band decided to release this track as a
single... The songwriting is still amazing, fresh, full of melodies,
includes great guitar solos, wonderful keyboards and amazing
drumming! Now, that I mentioned the drumming, I must say that Uli
Kusch has done an excellent work and you will understand this from
the very first track... Let’s go now to Jorn Lande (vocals) who has
given an amazing performance once again. Just listen to “Black In
The Burn”, where Jorn sings with great passion and reveals all his
abilities! The guitars of Mr. Roland Grapow are unique and there is
nothing I can say for him, because all of you are aware of his
technical skills, his passion and his talent. Andy Sneap had made a
superb production for once again and it is so clean, powerful and
heavy that many bands will get in queue in order to work with him! I
must also mention that Roy Z helped the band when they had the first
ideas for the new tracks… The album has a very good artwork, a
wonderful booklet and the digipack limited edition CD includes a
bonus track (“Treasure World”), a screen saver and wallpapers of the
band. I was a little bit disappointed about this, because I expected
something more since the limited edition of their debut album
included one more CD with a video, an interview and a screen saver…
Listen to one of the more mature melodic metal/hard rock/power metal
bands in our days and one of the best albums of 2005 and you will
not regret it at all! If I had to choose some tracks from this CD I
would choose: “Back For My Life”, “Headbanger’s Ballroom” and “Black
In The Burn”.
by George Kouvelis 9/10
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