Dracula - Swing Of Death

Published January 29 2015

*=Staff's pick	Hands Of Your God Walking On Water* Swing Of Death Masquerade Ball Save Me* River Of Tears Queen Of The Dead Into The Dark True Love Through Blood Under The Gun

Genre	Hard Rock	Jorn Lande	Vocals
Tracks	10	Lena Fløitmoen Børresen	Vocals
Running time	47 Min.	Trond Holter	Guitar
Label	Frontiers Records	Bernt Jansen	Bass
Release	23 January 2015	Per Morten Bergseth	Drums
Country	Norway	-	Keyboard
Producer	J. Lande, T. Holter
Similar artists	---

Full title: Jorn Lande & Trond Holter present Dracula - Swing Of Death

Norwegian musicians Jorn Lande and Trond Holter have put together a concept album about the life of Count Dracula. The album is basically built around hard rock with lots of different elements involved, such as heavy metal, small parts of rock opera, a tad symphonic moments, some melodic metal, etc.

After a heavy, fumbling start with the opening track, Hands Of Your God, this record really hits its high water mark with the immensely captivating song Walk On Water, only to fall deep down the abyss with the next song, the title track Swing Of Death, which really is an idiotic jazz/swing/70's pop influenced vomit of a song. This year's worst song, included on a rock album, to be? So what's my point with these lines above? Well, my point is that this effort really has its strong ups and downs in terms of songwriting and a clear lack of the capability to come out with a massive way of expression all throughout the record.

Jorn Lande's vocal ability is still impressive nevertheless and I think that he comes out really strong on this release and nearly the same goes for the female vocals of Lena Fløitmoen Børresen, whose voice is a nice complement to Lande's on a few tracks. Still these two vocalists aren't able to bring overall success to the album, since the songs simply aren't awesome enough to feed my hunger for great music.

There are definitely too many bland tracks on this release and the overall performance can't bring this one to any higher ratings and in the end this is just a decent record which lands at 5 chalices in my book.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	8	7	8	4

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - Tobbe