Please do not cut!

First: That's an interesting disc. Good music, great melodies - partially correct class anthems: the opener "Wings and sword" could entertain an entire stadium. The scale as a double album product has on the first part precisely these hymns-like songs, on the second part's then rather quiet. 20 songs in total, hardly a hangover. For four points.

Point deduction there's this: here the buyer is a concept sells an image. Both turn out to be eternal mates represent ("we are absolutely honest with each other", "nothing brings us apart"), which have already gone through thick and thin. In the gray part of Berlin you go too hard because of course are honesty, fighting spirit, Tattoo, strength, loyalty and other attributes in the foreground. That may be the two main players all really true, but you get first impression that have nothing else to offer. Where is the music? The is quite well done.

If you look at the so look, the videos, the imagery, the interviews etc, then comes to the presumption that it is merely a clever marketing strategy warhorse. The band occupied a not currently occupied Image: somewhere between the rough exterior of Bushido and the soft core of Unheilig - both were extremely successful in Germany. As a Company seeks ever to target groups that could match it. Warhorses come there just right. Or are perhaps precisely in this area have been designed into it.

Anyway: the board offers interesting facets. But you have to get used to mix the two voices a little: a rough and scratchy (but does not sound authentic), the other gentle and a pitch higher. Could really sound good, if a little dirt would get brushed on the rough side. However: who get along with Tom Waits, will have no problems with this drive.

Tom Waits has incidentally his first album released in 1973. At that time he was a kind of poet of the gutter. Long before the lords of warhorses have come to this funnel with the Goss poetry.

Conclusion: if you take omits the ghetto posturing, a well-done disc remains the one must engage. It will certainly be a target group that in these songs - and this concept - will find. Why - but please do not cut: only conditionally a Best Buy.