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You just have to bang your head til madness comes
Sebastian Huhn | Reflections Of Darkness | Germany |
BUGGIRL
combines the powers of the two siblings Amber and Clinno who have been
successful for quite a while now under that moniker and amongst others
toured with the likes of BLITZKID, V8WANKERS, HEARTBREAK ENGINES and
THE CREEPSHOW.
BUGGIRL debuted in 2004 with ‘Looming Shadows’
followed by an EP in 2005 and a long tour. ‘Rock’n’Roll Hell’ is their
next assault on the world-wide rock community.
Guess how
surprised I was to hear that there are still bands around who play such
a classic rock sound without even the slightest sign of an electronic
influence?
Just the joined efforts of a brother and a sister,
expressing their love for this music, and sometimes I can’t believe
that all this energy just comes from two people.
And now we hurl
ourselves right into the hail of bullets of the first track ‘Shootin’
Fire’, starting with a whirl of drums until wailing guitars rush in and
front woman Amber bloody kicks ass with her feisty voice putting
seasoned rock fronters in their places.
Just right in the
footsteps, the title track follows and keeps the pace, whilst
presenting an astonishing amount of masterfully played drum parts while
the hard riffs almost make the speakers burst with their power.
“Take
me down baby, take me home”, BUGGIRL sings in one part of ‘Ian Astbury’
and one is tempted to do her the favour after such a performance ;-)
After a rather slow start with pressing riffs the song gains momentum
and you get to hear a vocal action that blows you away.
‘Death
on Wheels’ does its name justice and takes no prisoners in sweeping
everything out of the way that isn’t fast enough to get away from the
drum avalanche the song puts up.
‘Resurrected’ on the other hand
decelerates a bit and here and there a bit of a subtle darkness is
shimmering through. More down-tuned riffs and a solo in the background
I can only describe as ghostly, it’s brilliantly played though and I
have to say that Amber handles the clean vocals very well. I especially
came to love how she’s pronouncing the ‘Resurrected’ with an original
British/Welsh accent.
Now let’s come to ‘Hot Tonite’ to which
you just have to bang your head til madness comes. At least as long as
the fast tempo prevails, that is just dropping all of a sudden to make
way for a slower but nevertheless powerful performance.
Speaking
of slow, the next track is just that and in case I didn’t mention it: I
love this voice. She’s screaming you into the ground on ‘Get Picked
Up’, the guitars screech and melt with the vocals and the drums to a
furious finale of the track.
I just have to give credit to the drummer again as what he’s delivering on ‘You’ll Love it in here’ is just brilliant.
‘Suck it’ is just a straight classy track that gets the most punch out of the impressing vocal parts in my opinion.
The
finale ‘War & Fire’ is the epitome of the term varied. There’s lots
of rhythmic and tempo shifts, breaks and some of the coolest guitar
solos are united on this track.
Classic rock albums didn’t catch
me very often, but this one did. Took me a few listens to get into it,
then I got carried away by the power and the verve this duo displays. A
very nice and varied album you should really check out...
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 8
Total: 8
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