Doro - Under My Skin: A Fine Selection Of Doro Classics

Published July 13 2012

*=Staff's pick

CD 1:
All We Are (2007 Version)
You're My Family
I Rule The Ruins (feat. The Classic Night Orchestra)
Celebrate
The Night Of The Warlock*
Strangers Yesterday
Walking With The Angels (feat. Tarja Turunen)
Metal Tango (feat. The Classic Night Orchestra)
Thunderspell
Herzblut*
Warrior Soul
My Majesty
Für Immer (feat. The Classic Night Orchestra)
Love Me In Black (feat. The Classic Night Orchestra)
Always Live To Win (feat. The Classic Night Orchestra)
Running From The Devil
Above The Ashes
Let Love Rain On Me (feat. The Classic Night Orchestra)

CD 2:
Celebrate (Full Metal Female Version)
Rescue Me
Rare Diamond (Acoustic Version)
Angel In The Dark
1999
In Liebe Und Freundschaft
I Lay My Head Upon My Sword
Tausend Mal Gelebt (feat. The Classic Night Orchestra)
Wildfire
Breaking The Law
She's Like Thunder (2005 Version)
The Queen
You Won My Love
Lonely Wolf

Genre	Heavy Metal	Doro Pesch	Vocals
Tracks	32	Joe Taylor	Guitar
Running time	136 Min.	O. Palotai/L. Princiotta	Guitar
Label	AFM Records	Nick Douglas	Bass
Release	06 July 2012	Johnny Dee	Drums
Country	Germany	O. Palotai/L. Princiotta	Keyboard
Producer	Sickert, Lietz, Bruhn, Pesch
Similar artists	---

A best of release spanning through the German metal queen's whole career? Hardly. This is a compilation of Doro's time with AFM Records, so most of the material is taken from the two albums Warrior Soul and Fear No Evil, including all the bonus tracks.

Also present on this double CD collection are b-sides from EPs, a rather stinky recording of Judas Priest's Breaking The Law, the re-recorded, and not so good, 2007 version of Warlock's All We Are, as well as songs recorded with The Classic Night Orchestra, whose only purpose seemed to be to make the songs lose heaviness, tempo and feeling. A document of something different, yet more cool than good.

The album has many good songs, but is worth buying? Well, if you already own her two latest studio releases, I think not, unless you want to complete your collection. If you never heard her music before, you might as well start with this, because this is what Doro have sounded like in recent years, and I would be surprised if her new album, coming this fall, would sound significantly different.

Lastly, I got to hand out some credit to whoever designed the front cover. I'm just glad we don't have a cartoon like Doro, dressed in a super action hero metal outfit, looking like twenty again. Sure, she has thoroughly passed through Photoshop, but what haven't these days?

See also review of: Raise Your Fist In The Air , Fear No Evil , Warrior Soul , Classic Diamonds

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
5	2	5	5	5

Summary
4 chalices of 10 - Tobbe