STARBREAKER „s/t”

Melodic metal
12 Songs – 52:21 min
Good songs: Die for you, Lies
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First I thought, do they want to fool me with the sitar sounds and the weird noise in the beginning… BUT: This changes consequently and „Die for you“ goes in the air like a rocket! The vocals remind me much on Lauri in The Rasmus and also the music sounds like that band, but a little bit on speed. I would say for the first samples: Let´s see what they can offer after that nice first song…

Okay, „Lies“ could definitely be a song of Pink Cream 69! Nevertheless, I think this song is very good! Man, if that album goes on like that, then this self-titled debut album could rotate in my CD player for many times! J
I am not much into „Break my bones“ and „Crushed“ at the moment… More and more The Rasmus style… That frightens me! 😉 But they don´t take speed away. I am waiting for the next song, „Days of confusion“…
In the meantime I can tell you that this is a project of a few good musicians of four gentlemen: Tony Harnell, also the singer in the Swedish band TNT, found guitarist Magnus Karlsson (Last Tribe), John Macaluso (also TNT and in ARK and Yngwie Malmsteen) behind the drumkit as well as bassist Fabrizio Grossi, who is producer. So the four worked on an album.

Okay, meanwhile „Days of confusion“ has started, well, it has come to its end already, respectively. But hello, I am sitting here, don´t think of anything else and: Hey, there is the expected ballad!

But nothing! Just the intro and the outro of the song is dominated by a piano. Nothing to do with calming down! You can forget that with “Transparent” as well!
Okay, where did they steal that melody of the beginning of „Light at the end of the world“?! But, hey, cool! And with „Cradle to the grave“ Starbreaker drift into a little heavier corner. …Okay, that was wrong… J Again a regular Starkbreaker battle. That rocks!

Aha, a piano in the beginning of a song for the third time… Again no calming down: „Underneath a falling sky“. Starbreaker are always good for a surprise. Furthermore they don´t stop the speed! I like that! J
Instead of a ballad, that I was searching vain, there is an instrumental! That is ok as well! J Normally I am not much into those instrumentals and I don´t like it here as well. That is why I cannot find anything on that song. But I have to mark that the musicians really know what their music is about!

The last song („Save yourself“) is a song in the old manner… But hey… I can´t help myself, but that guy definitely sounds like Lauri! I don´t care… J I am totally enthusiastic about that! And that is why I can tell the melodic metalheads between us: Listen to it! Release date: March 21, 2005!

Tracklist

Die for you – 4:05
Lies – 5:15
Break my bones – 4:26
Crushed – 4:42
Days of confusion – 4:06
Transparent – 4:21
Light at the end of the world – 4:03
Cradle to the grave – 3:55
Underneath a falling sky – 4:25
Turn it off – 4:14
Dragonfly – 3:26
Save yourself – 3:54

Line-up

Tony Harnell – vocals and background vocals
Magnus Karlsson – guitar and keyboards
Fabrizio Grossi – bass
John Macaluso – drums