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Tarantula - Metalmorphosis


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=Staff's pick

Breaking The Barriers Of Time
We Go With The Flow
The Bleeding Land
New Tomorrow
Your Promised Land
All In Your Eyes
Sea Of Doubts
Far Away From God
Meant To Be Alone
Never Be Forgotten
Under Control


Genre Melodic Hard Rock
Jorge Marques
Vocals
Tracks 11
Paolo Barros
Guitar
Runningtime 42 Min.
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Guitar
Label AFM Records
José Aguiar
Bass
Release 12 June 2005
Luis Barros
Drums
Country Portugal
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Keyboards
Similar artists Dokken, The Rasmus

Very nice cover art! Indeed. A beautiful bionic chick standing in flames. A bit skinny perhaps… It really rises your expectations for some nice, hard powermetal in the same vein as Metalium. But out of the CD-player comes just some yawning melodic hard rock. At first I was absolutely sure that this must be another new Finnish band. But apparently I am not always right. Tarantula is a Portuguese band who started already in the 80s. But the singer Jorge Marques must have gone to a Finnish English-pronunciation-pedagogue anyway. Otherwise he just have one of these power- and character-less voices that doesn't add anything really to the already lame hard rock sound.

The production is 100% clean, which does not help to make this any more interesting. None of the songs are really awful, but actually I can't really find a favourite either. Some choruses are annoyingly sticky, but not in a positive way. You become tired of them already one the second turn. It's not bad, just… without balls… and really boring - to the limit of no-reason-to-exist. To sum up, I can't find any reason why you should buy this. It will all do as background music at best.

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Summary



4 chalices of 10 - David

Related links:

www.tarantula-music.com