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TALISMAN : 7 |
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2006-10-20 | Melodic hard rock |
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| Frontiers Records | ||
| Website | ||
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| Contact | ||
| peter.peeters@roughtrade.nl | ||
| Playing Time | Cat. N° | |
| 43:29 | FRCD30 | |
| Review by | Rating | |
| Danny/Daniëlla | 8/10 | |
| nederlands | Review | |
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Danny: Sweden is one of the main
deliverers of Prog, Metal and Hard Rock bands and Talisman isn’t one
of the least names coming from that country. After 16 years and
seven studio albums (plus some live albums and compilations), they
are still releasing top ‘melodic hard rock’ that must appeal to
every metal, hard rock and especially AOR fans.
Since the previous release “Cats and Dogs”, the musicians of Talisman were all very busy with other projects. Jeff Scott Soto worked with Journey guitar player Neal Schon in Soul Sirkus; a cooperation that eventually lead to Jeff singing with Journey during the second half of their 2006 tour. Marcel Jacob (bass) worked with Last Autumn’s Dream (AOR), whose line-up also consisted of drummer Jamie Borger, who also took part in the 2006 Treat reunion. And let’s not forget Fredrik Akesson who plays with Arch Enemy now. So, it’s a miracle it took them ‘only’ three years to release this “7”. ;-) As always, the vocals of Jeff are top notch. The experience of the musicians is dripping from your speakers, with incredible guitar solos, great rhythms and a bass to give everything the right swing. The sound is closer to their earlier work on ‘Talisman’ and ‘Genesis’. I’m glad they returned to this ‘Melodic Hard Rock’ and left away the more funky style they used on the ‘Humanimal’ albums, except for the one track “Succumb My Desire”. Talisman does what we expect from the band: delivering a great album, nothing more, nothing less. So you know what you get when you buy this one. Daniëlla: These Swedish guys are really experienced! Marcel Jacob and Jeff Scott Soto started in the 80’s en played in several bands (for example: “Yngwie Malmsteen“), Jamie Borgir also played in “Treat” while Frederik Åkesson is also part of “Arch Enemy”.
Jeff’s voice pleases me one more
time right from the start and I love the high levels of guitar
playing. This album shows again the existing of very good, classic
“melodic hard rock”! My favourites: “Rhymes of reason” (groovy!),
“End of the Line” (loud and heavy: the way I like it), “On my way (those
guitars!), “Succumb 2 my desire“ (enjoy it loud with headphones) and
the fantastic ballad: “Back to the feeling” (great guitar parts and
wonderful melody!) |
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Musicians |
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Jamie Borger: drums, egg Frederik Åkesson: lead guitar Marcel Jacob: bass, guitars, keyboards Jeff Scott Soto: vocals |
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“Falling”
(3:55) “Nowhere fast (4:00) Rhyme or reason (4:32) End of the line (3:58) The 1 I’m living 4 (4:17) On my way (3:45) Forevermore (3:39) Succumb 2 my desire (3:53) Shed a tear goodbye (4:06) Troubled water (4:36) Back 2 the feeling (4:32) |
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| Discography | ||
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Five Men
Life (2 cd Life): 2005 The World’s Best kept Secret (2 DVD): 2005 Live at the Sweden Rock Festival 2001: 2003 Live at the Sweden Rock Festival 2003 (DVD): 2003 Cats & Dogs: 2003 Talisman: 1990, (remaster:1999, 2003) Genesis: 1993 (remaster: 2003) Humanimal:1994 (remaster: 2003) Five out of Five (Live in Japan): 1994 (remaster: 2005) Life: 1995 (remaster: 2005) Best of Talisman: 1996 Besterious: 1996 Truth: 1998 (remaster: 2003) |
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01 oktober 2006 . |
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