BLACKRAIN
''RELEASES''
MARCH 25 2016
49:33
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01 - Back In Town 03:46
02 - Mind Control 03:47
03 - Killing Me 03:17
04 - Run Tiger Run 04:04
05 - Puppet On A String 03:52
06 - Words Ain't Enough 03:56
07 - Eat You Alive 03:51
08 - Home 04:23
09 - For Your Love 03:32
10 - Fade To Black 03:59
11 - Electric Blue 03:21
12 - Rock My Funeral 03:49
13 - One Last Prayer 03:50
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SWAN HELLION : Lead vocals, Guitars
AXEL "MAX 2" CHARPENTIER : Lead guitars
MATTHIEU DE LA ROCHE : Bass
FRANK FRUSETTA : Drums
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ABOUT THE ALBUM
www.rocknreviews.net
It's late 2014 that French band BlackRain announced on PledgeMusic that they launch a campaign to mobilize their fans so that they help them to prepare a new album. And this campaign tremendously well. The band from Annecy could calmly start the successor of It Begins, released in 2013.
“Released” will be out on March 25, 2016 and it will be their fifth album. As with the previous album, it is once again the great Jack Douglas (Aerosmith, Lennon, Patti Smith, Blue Oyster Cult, Slash ...) who will officiate as a producer. And this is obviously a good news as the work he had done on It Begins was excellent. He channeled the band and helped take them one level above. To cross a milestone.
This is a huge bass that opens the debate, followed closely by well incisive guitars on the first single from the album (and video) Back In Town and very fit-in chorus, with a Guns'n'Roses and 80's style. it smells California and Max's solo is short but very effective. However, I'd prefer it the melodic Mind Control and its AC/DC's guitars. Once again the chorus is very catchy and the voice of Swan is superb of adequacy. The sound is velvet. A great time that should please to fans when played live. Same melodic rhythm for Killing Me and drum beat breathtaking. Again and again a huge chorus, very effective. No, this is not an American band but it's French band and our french have frankly nothing to envy our American friends. Killing Me is a superb title.
Same rate for the sumptuous Run Tiger Run where once again we must emphasize the immense work of Swan on vocals. Rhythm perfectly straight, precise, sharp guitars and even a solo engraved in the rock. Definitely my favorite title of Released. The rhytm lightens with Puppet on A String which is a tone below, also sounding very 80s. By cons, Words Ain't Enough is much better, very melodic again, group cohesion is felt to clearly and unambiguously. Many work in the year 2015 without a doubt. The desire to pass a course and succeeding.
Intro very Alice Cooper for the nervous Eat You Alive, which for me is the weakness of the album but stays on a good level. Home follows it with its intro on keyboards and acoustic guitar, everything reminds me of a Guns'n'Roses in the 80's and this is why the voice of Swan can remind Axl Rose's voice. One of the greatest successes of the album.
I don't know who had the idea (Jack Douglas, maybe?) to cover the Yardbirds' For Your Love (written by Graham Gouldman, future 10cc) but it's brilliantly covered in a 21st century's sound. Rock, melodic but respectful of the original version. Moreover excellent idea.
We light lighters for the soft Fade to Black, its piano and its explosion of rock guitars and always a chorus of madness. BlackRain is in freewheel. A very melodious and harmonic solo. The next track, Electric Blue is a class below, much like Puppet on A String, less serious than Fade to Black or Run Tiger Run. Rock My Funeral, despite its title, is a funny song, rock'n'roll in the soul. A chorus that will make dance more than one, it is sure.
Back to piano and strings for One Last Prayer, a song in a cheerful and joyful tone. A great success to close the album. The album is finished ? No, because there is a hidden song that is not on the setlist. Sorry I have no title but it's quite addictive, it's nice, probably a pleasure to celebrate the end of the recording. It feels like Mötley Crüe.
I admit I was a little apprehensive before listening this BlackRain's Released but honestly it is a serious band, which wants to become an important band and BlackRain will be one day. Jack Douglas' work is once again phenomenal, the sound is at once sober, hushed and powerful. The guitars are heavy, spectacular, bass and drums' work is incredible and Swan's voice is worthy, a mix of Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe) and Axl Rose (Guns'N 'Roses) two singers he is fond of.
The record will be released on March 25th, do not hesitate to buy it right out. BlackRain will hit the stage at Download Festival on June 10 at the Longchamp Hippodrome in Paris with Iron Maiden, Deftones, Ghost, Gojira and Anthrax.
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''RELEASES''
MARCH 25 2016
49:33
**********
01 - Back In Town 03:46
02 - Mind Control 03:47
03 - Killing Me 03:17
04 - Run Tiger Run 04:04
05 - Puppet On A String 03:52
06 - Words Ain't Enough 03:56
07 - Eat You Alive 03:51
08 - Home 04:23
09 - For Your Love 03:32
10 - Fade To Black 03:59
11 - Electric Blue 03:21
12 - Rock My Funeral 03:49
13 - One Last Prayer 03:50
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SWAN HELLION : Lead vocals, Guitars
AXEL "MAX 2" CHARPENTIER : Lead guitars
MATTHIEU DE LA ROCHE : Bass
FRANK FRUSETTA : Drums
**********
ABOUT THE ALBUM
www.rocknreviews.net
It's late 2014 that French band BlackRain announced on PledgeMusic that they launch a campaign to mobilize their fans so that they help them to prepare a new album. And this campaign tremendously well. The band from Annecy could calmly start the successor of It Begins, released in 2013.
“Released” will be out on March 25, 2016 and it will be their fifth album. As with the previous album, it is once again the great Jack Douglas (Aerosmith, Lennon, Patti Smith, Blue Oyster Cult, Slash ...) who will officiate as a producer. And this is obviously a good news as the work he had done on It Begins was excellent. He channeled the band and helped take them one level above. To cross a milestone.
This is a huge bass that opens the debate, followed closely by well incisive guitars on the first single from the album (and video) Back In Town and very fit-in chorus, with a Guns'n'Roses and 80's style. it smells California and Max's solo is short but very effective. However, I'd prefer it the melodic Mind Control and its AC/DC's guitars. Once again the chorus is very catchy and the voice of Swan is superb of adequacy. The sound is velvet. A great time that should please to fans when played live. Same melodic rhythm for Killing Me and drum beat breathtaking. Again and again a huge chorus, very effective. No, this is not an American band but it's French band and our french have frankly nothing to envy our American friends. Killing Me is a superb title.
Same rate for the sumptuous Run Tiger Run where once again we must emphasize the immense work of Swan on vocals. Rhythm perfectly straight, precise, sharp guitars and even a solo engraved in the rock. Definitely my favorite title of Released. The rhytm lightens with Puppet on A String which is a tone below, also sounding very 80s. By cons, Words Ain't Enough is much better, very melodic again, group cohesion is felt to clearly and unambiguously. Many work in the year 2015 without a doubt. The desire to pass a course and succeeding.
Intro very Alice Cooper for the nervous Eat You Alive, which for me is the weakness of the album but stays on a good level. Home follows it with its intro on keyboards and acoustic guitar, everything reminds me of a Guns'n'Roses in the 80's and this is why the voice of Swan can remind Axl Rose's voice. One of the greatest successes of the album.
I don't know who had the idea (Jack Douglas, maybe?) to cover the Yardbirds' For Your Love (written by Graham Gouldman, future 10cc) but it's brilliantly covered in a 21st century's sound. Rock, melodic but respectful of the original version. Moreover excellent idea.
We light lighters for the soft Fade to Black, its piano and its explosion of rock guitars and always a chorus of madness. BlackRain is in freewheel. A very melodious and harmonic solo. The next track, Electric Blue is a class below, much like Puppet on A String, less serious than Fade to Black or Run Tiger Run. Rock My Funeral, despite its title, is a funny song, rock'n'roll in the soul. A chorus that will make dance more than one, it is sure.
Back to piano and strings for One Last Prayer, a song in a cheerful and joyful tone. A great success to close the album. The album is finished ? No, because there is a hidden song that is not on the setlist. Sorry I have no title but it's quite addictive, it's nice, probably a pleasure to celebrate the end of the recording. It feels like Mötley Crüe.
I admit I was a little apprehensive before listening this BlackRain's Released but honestly it is a serious band, which wants to become an important band and BlackRain will be one day. Jack Douglas' work is once again phenomenal, the sound is at once sober, hushed and powerful. The guitars are heavy, spectacular, bass and drums' work is incredible and Swan's voice is worthy, a mix of Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe) and Axl Rose (Guns'N 'Roses) two singers he is fond of.
The record will be released on March 25th, do not hesitate to buy it right out. BlackRain will hit the stage at Download Festival on June 10 at the Longchamp Hippodrome in Paris with Iron Maiden, Deftones, Ghost, Gojira and Anthrax.
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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