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Alpha Tiger - iDentity

Published January 15 2015


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=Staff's pick

Intro
Lady Liberty
Scripted Reality
Long Way Of Redemption
iDentity
We Won't Take It Anymore*
Revolution In Progress
Closer Than Yesterday
Shut Up & Think*
This World Will Burn*


Genre Heavy Metal
Stephan Dietrich
Vocals
Tracks 10
Peter Langforth
Guitar
Running time 50 Min.
Alexander Backasch
Guitar
Label Steamhammer/SPV
Dirk Frei
Bass
Release 14 January 2015
David Schleif
Drums
Country Germany
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Keyboard
Producer Alpha Tiger
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Alpha Tiger's last album, Beneath The Surface, made a rather strong impression on me as it indeed was a very pleasing effort, especially when considering the highest scoring songs which had great capacity in terms of melody and the overall driving force. 2 years later things definitely look different as far as I'm concerned.

I really feel that this new record has a notable lack of those solid and vivid songs and with the end result which is now presented, this effort absolutely doesn't match up to its predecessor and this really sounds more plain and ordinary in total, since the accurate and killing songs no longer exist in my book and a major share of the material ends up being stuck in the vast sphere of something decent. I also think that the band on a few aspects has left or stepped aside from its kind of fresh and youthful type of heavy metal with influences of certain speed metal elements, in favor of a more everyday heavy metal approach with some power metal parts involved.

Beforehand, I actually thought that these Germans would step up even further in terms of songwriting and performance and that they would be able to come out with something really absorbing and noteworthy, but in my point of view, these factual 9 songs really don't contain the strength nor the stamina to sort of burst out into massive musical pieces. I can't say that this record is some kind of big-time failure, yet I must point out that I feel a little disappointed in the end, as I was really looking forward to see this band develop into greater moments.

See also review of: Beneath The Surface

Performance
Originality
Production
Vocals
Songwriting

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Summary



5 chalices of 10 - Tobbe


Related links:

www.alphatiger.de
www.facebook.com/alphatigerband