Hell In The Club - Shadow Of The Monster

Published January 06 2016

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Genre	Hard Rock	Dave	Vocals
Tracks	10	Picco	Guitar
Running time	43 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Scarlet Records	Andy	Bass
Release	January 22, 2016	Lancs	Drums
Country	Italy	-	Keyboard
Producer	Simone Mularoni
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The Italian constellation Hell In The Club, with members from Elvenking and Secret Sphere, is back with a 3rd album of easy-going hard rock and once again the music of this project takes big steps away from what these guys originally do with their main bands. I totally encourage their decision to do things differently and jump outside their usual frames of music and when at the same time the end result is really good too, I believe it turns out to be nothing but a win-win situation for everybody.

This piece of work is basically not built in order to come out in an advanced way with a lot of intricate or esoteric structures and neither are the guys trying to show people their instrumental talents more than absolute necessary. Instead they just let their creativity stream openly to try to provide the listeners with nothing but a solid bunch of songs with a massive party factor about dreams of success, chicks, rock music and everything else that comes with it. It's really a refreshing side that they are able to put to the music and also quite quickly I get attracted to what's handed out.

In comparison to the band's latest effort, Devil On My Shoulder, which I listened to before writing this text, the songs on this brand new album are definitely just as strong and captivating. Each and every one isn't a super hot phenomenon, but a lot of the songs are truly elevating with a happy aura embracing them and to me personally they kind of bring forth an image of summertime and plenty of thoughts about the good times. Shadow Of The Monster is a nice hard rock experience and I think that this entity once again has managed to put out something legitimate.

See also review of: Devil On My Shoulder

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	5	7	7	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Tobbe