Alpha Tiger - iDentity

Published January 15 2015

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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	-	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.