Strike Ten starts after the intro with the majestic slow grooving "Under Blue Skies" really saustark on, with the fast Smasher "Strike Back" there is properly a has on the 12, and "Down to Atlanta" his strong genes of "American Nights "inherited. After these 3 really great songs, the powder for the remaining 8 Songs is then but somehow missed. "Southern Winds" is a totally inconsequential power ballad without any draft, "Good Time Rock Roll" and "Until the Last Goodbye" 2 very nice useful Honky Tonk-Bar-rock pieces of the old school, the rest audibly, but it is absolutely interchangeable what time you notice that none of the two ballads ignites (what else the strength Bonfires was yes). Otherwise, a hard-working hard rock album that after the first 3 songs has its high points behind, the rest is nice, braves, trivial accessory, somehow comes to me as much too loosely over, it lacks distinctive choruses and riffs, coupled with the necessary roughness and heaviness. This effortless vocals of Claus Lessmann loose me often too monotonous and not put forward with the necessary polynuclear roughness because he could love again fooled a bit more power and hard-rocking passion. At the beginning of the album it's all obvious even, until then drifts strongly and obviously not enough adequate first-class material in stock had to fill the album. At the production there, as in all Bonfire albums, nothing to complain about. Not a bad album and also quite suitable for each hard rockers and recommended, albeit not an absolute must. A thoroughly worthy successor to the resurgent Fuel to the Flames album.
