Volbeat Light

JAWOHL:
Yes, yes, yes only 3 stars for the new album the guys from Super Volbeat. What I think this just what I allow myself ever wanting to contradict so many joy tumbling 5 star reviews? Before I am staying long in root cause analysis, equal to the cause:
For the first time I did something happen in "Beyond Hell / Above Heaven", what happened to me so far with any of the previous albums. After the first Hördurchgängen, already alarmingly large number of songs to me begin to be boring and / or me to go even on your nerves. So now it's out! That is the fact, you will find with it. Even after listening 100 times I can still be passed without any signs of wear, the three old discs. The new but is now somehow from the paint.

WHAT EXACTLY BOTHER ?:
Poor or Fair rated reviews need to justify so always some detail, rated as Good or Super. Therefore, now an attempt to go into detail. Who has patience, should the same fast-forward to the end of Rezi.
What exactly because the new songs less than the old ones. Maybe just not as good as expected?
Hard to describe. First it should be understood that the CD already typical Volbeat is indeed. The standard is so enthusiastic supporter of old and new hardly see a difference (want).
The usual suspect is the critical analysts mostly the new major label. Lo and behold, hand on heart, with Universal rocking the Sound actually not quite as perfect as you would expect from the Danes so far. Although the songs still appear in the original structures, but any rough edges have been ground away from the sound. The Drums Do not party too, the guitars blend discreetly into the background and the worst: Michael's unmistakable exceptional voice suddenly comes much more delicate and atypical powerless to light. Sounds in many places as if the singer by a talented but schwachbrüstigeren impersonator its been even replaced. Even the Volbeat- already much cited "board" is actually missing from the album. The outstanding hammers the songs have been "simply mixed". The individual pieces really seem to me much tamer than what I'm used to from Volbeat and especially why I was originally Volbeat fan. With this album I would probably not have happened.
Also at the Lyrics I see cause for concern. Although probably only a few really goes on, I find that the lyrics pick up on the new album too often terms like "debt", "sin", "Salvation", "Atonement" and "salvation." Sounds already dangerously shallow after überfrömmelten self-finding concept album a holistic Episcopal yoga support group.

To the songs:
"The Mirror of the Ripper", "Heaven Nor Hell", "Fallen", "A Better Believer", "7 Shots" and "16 Dollars" are typical Volbeat songs like you expected it and in a similar form of the old Albums knows. But the rock, robust sound is weakening rather on the poor production, nevertheless you're reasonably happy as a fan. However, to me the lyrics are full bit too much of quasi-religious redemptive fuss. One or two songs about God and the world would have been okay. Here it is overkill.

"Who They are," A New Day "," Magic Zone "and" Being 1 "while using even the usual structures and stylistic devices, but the songs themselves get tired pretty quickly and motivate frighteningly short. No, this too banal pieces also want after repeated listening does not ignite.

"Evelyn" is kind of exotic to this album. Grunted largely on "Napalm Death" 's Barney does not sound like this song as the first ever in the band's history by Volbeat. Rather, you might think you would have smuggled for the purpose of cross-promotion the song a friendly Death metal band with the selection. For fans of the genre of the song may still pass as a bonus track. Mir closes this piece, because Death Metal singing, or to grunt requires a very talented "grunts" such as Johann Hegg of "Amon Amarth" or Patrik Mennander of the older "Battlelore". Barney may be a prominent member of his profession, but if you can not articulate lyrics, so that the listener has the opportunity sometimes to understand one or the other word, the song could have been equally well sung by a single-cylinder scooter engine ,

"A Warrior's Call" is itself in turn a good song, an ode to the Danish boxer Mikkel Kessler. Since I myself am not a fan of the filthy boxing, I personally have some problems with the downright embarrassing Beweihräucherungs orgy. The Danish athletes (?) Is praised to the skies so that the song already sounds like satire. A shoulder knock-song for a boxer who puts him in detail on notice that he is of course the best. Good Boy! :-)

"Thanks" is the completion of the album and also also one whose two-atypical Volbeat songs. Unlike "Evelyn" I come with the punk style, the Danes have abgeguckt after a statement here even with fellow bands, very clear. The piece is rocking!

CONCLUSION:
A typical Volbeat album, has that continues to struggle with the production of the new label. Most of the pieces do not come more than a mediocrity out or fall even lower. Even pieces that would have been on old albums a hit, bob here in inconsequential-banal vermixter sound soup.
The clear and pithy sound and song structures of old Volbeatstücke have been planed smooth the sake Allgemeinverträglicheit and go unfortunately completely under.
Many songs are of the texts her private nature, speak directly to friends or relatives of the band, or even a bit too much cluttered with spiritual evil-guy-on-the-road-to-redemption-topic. Therefore, the difficult access to the texts brakes at least for me a bit the enthusiasm for these pieces.
So the bottom line is an album that will satisfy fans. Newcomers I recommend instead "Rock the Rebel / Metal the Devil" or "Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood".