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Artist: Outloud |
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With
Germany and Scandinavian being a hot bed of good rock n' roll, it's nice
for get bands from the other parts of Europe that give these dominant
areas a run for their money. One band that set tongues wagging in 2009
with their debut release were Outloud. What more these guys are
not from Stockholm, or Hamburg, but hail from Athens, Greece and deliver
a hard rock sound easy equaling anything Scandinavia or Germany can
produce. Now
the band of Bob Katsionis, Tony Nash, Sverd T. Soth, Mark Cross and
Chandler Mogel return, with what is a very impressive Hard Rock
album. Based around the stirring twin guitars of Katsionis and
Nash, the pummeling bass and drums of Soth and Cross respectively, but
it's the vocals of Mogel that really unites everything together in this
tight rockin’ package. From
the opening track ‘We Came To Rock’ it’s clear the band have gone
for the all-out full-frontal assault from the off, as Mogul unleashes a
mighty anthemic vocal, powered all the way with the twin guitar so Nash
and Katsionis. That hard edged rock just keeps on coming with the
excellent ‘Falling Rain’ and the riff fuelled ‘Live Again’,
before the band show off their very credible Melodic Rock side with
‘Waiting For Your Love’, before bring it back up again with one of
my favourites off the album the power infused ‘The Night That Never
Ends’. A song that has that Joe Lynn Turner Rainbow feel about
it. But
if you really want to know what a great vocal talent that Mogul is then
check out the gentle ballad ‘Someday’. A real gem of a song
that is one of the best ballads I’ve heard this year. It's
back to the ballsy hard rockin’ with the excellent ‘Underground’,
a real heads down raise your fist rocker, before mixing it up a little
with the stunning multi-layered ‘Isolation Game’, before really
ripping things up with ‘Clean Hands’. The
album comes to a close with the title track ‘Love Catastrophe’, a
real high-end rocker to round off what is a great second album and one
that showcases perfectly the wealth of talent in this band both from
Greece and the US. |
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Tracklisting: 1.
We Came To Rock |
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