Pink Cream 69 - Ceremonial

Published January 23 2013

*=Staff's pick	Land Of Confusion* Wasted Years Special* Find Your Soul The Tide Big Machine Let The Thunder Roll Right From Wrong Passage Of Time I Came To Rock King For One Day Superman*

Genre	Hard Rock	David Readman	Vocals
Tracks	12	Alfred Koffler	Guitar
Running time	51 Min.	Uwe Reitenauer	Guitar
Label	Frontiers Records	Dennis Ward	Bass
Release	25 January 2013	Chris Schmidt	Drums
Country	Germany	-	Keyboard
Producer	Dennis Ward
Similar artists	Pretty Maids

The Germany based hard rockers in Pink Cream 69 are back with another full length studio album, six years past the release of their latest one, In10sity. Ceremonial also marks the first album with drummer Chris Schmidt. I haven't listened to this band since back in 2004 and their Thunderdome record and even if they have only released one album in this gap, I just didn't know what to expect when I laid my hands on this new album, besides that this band probably is most known around the world for having the present Helloween vocalist Andi Deris in their ranks two decades ago.

This band plays easily digested hard rock without taking things too far and it never gets especially interesting. No smash hits, some songs are good, but eventually this is just rather modern hard rock following the standards. A couple of cool, stylish and neat guitar licks and solos aren't enough to make this a pleasant trip all through these fifty-one minutes. The melodies in the songs are pretty good, but I never take them to my heart. There's a lack of that little extra touch to push the songs from decent or fairly good up to great.

The heavier Land Of Confusion and the catchy songs, Special and Superman, are a few tracks that I find memorable, even though this album leaves no solid impressions, merely a mark of twelve songs who are neither good or bad. With this long span between the records and with all this time to create stronger and heavy hitting songs, I think the fans are in a state to demand more. 4 chalices to a fairly decent release.

See also review of: Thunderdome , Endangered

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	5	6	7	4

Summary
4 chalices of 10 - Tobbe