Sebastian Bach - Give 'Em Hell

Published April 19 2014

*=Staff's pick	Hell Inside My Head Harmony* All My Friends Are Dead Temptation Push Away Dominator* Had Enough* Gun To A Knife Fight Rock N' Roll Is A Vicious Game Taking Back Tomorrow Disengaged* Forget You

Genre	Heavy Metal	Sebastian Bach	Vocals
Tracks	12	John 5	Guitar
Running time	51 Min.	Steve Stevens	Guitar
Label	Frontiers Records	Devil Bronson	Guitar
Release	18 April 2014	Duff McKagan	Bass
Country	USA	Bobby Jarzombek	Drums
Producer	Bob Marlette		Keyboard
Similar artists	---

The outspoken and in a way legendary frontman Sebastian Bach recently activated quite a good and well-known lineup to record his third proper solo release after Angel Down and Kicking & Screaming. Two records that absolutely had their brilliant peaks, but also a few tracks that left me without any greater impressions and after listening to Give 'Em Hell intensively during the last weeks, it seems like this one is no exception to the rule.

The songs tend to never really plunge into my inner senses. Most of them climb up the ladder, but aren't able to take those few last steps to reach the roof and turn out killer. I'm sitting here thinking that sooner or later, these songs will crack the sky and shoot repeated rounds of awesome experiences through my body, but somehow they never get to the point where they come out as winners. I totally enjoy a few of them, yet the lion's share ends up somewhere in barren lands where they seem to get stuck in a state of potentially good.

Give 'Em Hell shows that Bach has the ability to sing a little youthful at certain moments and at those points the very best of him shines brighter, even though he obviously isn't able to handle the highest stuff and his range and power has definitely diminished over the years. With slightly expired effect, his work is actually still pretty dominant and current occasionally, although the comparisons regarding him always end up somewhere around 1990 and to compare with those outstanding efforts is just a completely waste of time.

If putting aside the April Wine cover Rock N' Roll Is A Vicious Game, the vocal melodies of the songs don't differ specifically from Bach's two previous releases. The basics of the actual music however deliver different aspects in performance and idea and I feel that the songs have a lack of the intensity that I am so much looking for in his heavy metal. Although it's a solid work all throughout, I am not really able to connect to the songs all the way to mission accomplished. This is nevertheless a fairly good release and I believe that fans to his past solo albums may find some attraction to this record as well.

See also review of: ABachalypse Now , Kicking & Screaming

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
8	5	6	7	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe