First, I like both singers and Chickenfoot has good material.
However, it is my opinion of Sammy impresses the stamp with his incomparable singing.
The rest is "interchangeable" it could also be a solo album Sammy with good musicians.
A Different Kind of Truth on the other hand sounds from the first second distinctive and only in this composition as Van Halen.
Yes Mike and his backing vocals are not there, but 3/4 Ur Van Halen and Van Halen an additional original
Gen on bass (like me as a layman very good on bass of Wolfi) round out the story from more than well.
A bit of a shame it is that the new Van Halen lacks the dynamism in Sound.
The instruments individually do not come into their own.
Somehow washy.
Even the 91er disc FUCK sounds better there.
However, A Different Kind of Truth has an advantage over the Chickenfoot. The songs grow the more you hear. Eddie's riffs dig in simple and Alex drives the songs with his Drums formally.
After the first round I was disillusioned.
Nothing but "Tattoo" has stayed with me hanging in the ear canal.
Well there were still "She's the Woman" and "Stay Frosty" re sequel to "Ice Cream Man" and "Full Bug".
"Outta Space" with his old school riff I liked too, but that's it already asked I me?.
28 years and that's all?
There are Van Halen and I had to be happy just ;-) ran the plate up and down course.
Especially through headphones caught the part to grow. Suddenly there grooving!
"Blood and Fire", this rhythm as Dave sings the text, be Uahhh breathed,
the solo by Eddie, familiar, unmistakable like Van Halen should be.
This Van Halen feeling I feel now at:
You and Your Blues
Beats Workin
The Trouble with Never
Big River
Then there are the straight rockers like
"Bullet Head", just two and a half minutes Eddie Riff, chorus, reef, fast drumms ... end.
"Chinatown" is therefore similar.
A good three minutes quick, straight, simple, but with power.
Sweet Honey Baby Doll was not at the beginning.
What a slant number, but actually only spanks the chorus the song. The guitar is simply great, the drumms hard as a board.
My favorite at the moment "As Is".
(Horny drum intro with a slow riff, after 40 seconds then gives Eddie gas and how ... at 2:10 short concise solo break ... Dave Sprechgesang..Powerübergang..Dave gives the song with his La la Lalla the finishing touches ... just crazy!
"Stay Frosty" is a good Launegroover ... known acoustic early then it gets heavier and from minute 3 to the end grabs the thing in the legs that you dizzy. Dave is even one of his hotter screams from ... again perfect!
"Tattoo" is on the album actually the radio number.
First hearing impression ... something is missing, but that was just the first impression. Again, there is grooving again without end, the knarzige bass, catchy chorus and Dave's part deeper Chanting can not
Cast doubt on a true Van Halen number.
"She's The Woman" and Big River are known to be re-recorded 70s demos. Many complain that.
But why? She's Just The Woman goes off without end.
While I wrote this review, ran the disc through headphones and I ask again firmly what joy makes me thing.
I'd say A Different Kind of Truth is actually a direct hit, only a little dull sound clouds the whole a little.
A word about Dave's voice. It is a shade darker, perhaps even "broken" but charismatic as ever and it is not glossed over by too much reverb or other "Verschönerer". I do not know whether it has been reworked in the Accoustic pieces on the deluxe DVD, but here sounds Dave in my ears very well. Ever this DVD is a little gem (Dave's dog? Sits with us and Dave caressing him as he sings) although Wolfgang visually not quite fit into the picture.
My Conclusion:
A Different Kind of Truth is a power rock disc at its best, not as well structured as Chickenfoot III and also in the sound they can not keep up with the Chickenfoot, but the current Van Halen Output wins by its rawness, the many abwechlungsreichen riffs and the consciousness that here ( almost) is the Van Halen original cast at work.
