Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - World On Fire

Published September 24 2014

*=Staff's pick	World On Fire* Shadow Life* Automatic Overdrive Wicked Stone 30 Years To Life Bent To Fly Stone Blind Too Far Gone* Beneath The Savage Sun* Withered Delilah Battleground Dirty Girl Iris Of The Storm Avalon The Dissident Safari Inn The Unholy

Genre	Hard Rock	Myles Kennedy	Vocals
Tracks	17	Slash	Guitar
Running time	77 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Dik Hayd Records/Caroline	Todd Kerns	Bass
Release	15 September 2014	Brent Fitz	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboard
Producer	Michael Baskette
Similar artists	---

World On Fire is the third solo album under the Slash epithet and also the second featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators. What we basically get is pretty standardized modern hard rock without any longer trips in order to explore new grounds. Slash's guitar play is still rather characteristic and his activities, including a few longer and wide spread solos, put a good vibe to the music without getting too much in detail. Myles Kennedy's vocal effort primarily provides a high-spirited feeling to the record's end result and although he isn't utterly flawless, he absolutely shows no signs of being constrained by his duties and he definitely comes out strong in the end.

The record's playing time is something that bugs me a little. I guess it's mostly a luxury problem, but I can't help feeling somewhat saturated when I listen to the last songs. Any given band has to bring out immense variation and also have strong rotation in the material to make me stay fully focused for seventy-seven minutes split on seventeen songs. Don't get me completely wrong here, because the album actually shows diversity within the little narrow hard rock moniker, but I still feel that Slash and his crew aren't really able to find a necessary and monumental varied outcome and therefore I think that this unit falls a little short in this matter.

Certainly this release has moments that in fact are rather attractive nonetheless. It's fresh overall and the songs are driven and a few of them shows great caliber, as far as I'm concerned. At the end of the day, I think that World On Fire is a good record, which however a little too much follows a pretty straight and settled trajectory to come out as something extraordinary.

See also review of: Live At The Roxy 25.9.14

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
8	5	7	8	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe