MASQUERADE — Masquerade

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4.08 | 4 ratings | 1 review
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Album · 1992

Filed under Hard Rock
By MASQUERADE

Tracklist

1. Gimme All Your Love (4:38)
2. Four Letter Words (3:51)
3. Our Time Has Come (4:46)
4. Sudden Love Affair (4:56)
5. Ride With The Wind (3:59)
6. Dawning Of The Day (4:51)
7. Le Baugeux De Triomphe (0:46)
8. Wild Child (4:00)
9. Dancin' On The Edge (4:18)
10. Liaison (0:33)
11. Justice (3:26)
12. All Night All Day (4:28)
13. Give It A Shot (4:07)
14. Lonely World (2:29)

Total time 51:08

Line-up/Musicians

- Tony Johansson / vocals
- Thomas Eric / guitar
- Henrik Lundberg / bass
- Marco Tapani / drums

About this release

The album was reissued in 2008 with four multimedia bonus tracks.

Thanks to Time Signature for the addition and stephen, Lynx33, 666sharon666 for the updates

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Stephen
In the dawn of 90s, a young Swedish band was signed under Zero Records and definitely raised the flag to challenge Norway's TNT. Not only they shared a similarity in their musical style, Tony Yoanson's soaring vocal is comparable to Tony Harnell and Thomas Eric's skillful guitar handling can match Ronni LeTekro's acrobatic play. What makes this record so special is right on the same year, TNT released "Realized Fantasies" which I think a bit different and missed something big that I found in their 80s releases, and Masquerade smartly closed that gap by bringing me back to the glorious harmonic era of TNT.

Songs like "Gimme All Your Love" is an explosive in-your-face melodic perfection with one of the catchiest hooks you ever heard. This is their best creation in my book, but other songs like the melodic metal gem of "Our Time Has Come", the breezy "Ride With The Wind", and the furious riffage with bombastic chorus of "Wild Child" are unbelievably awesome too. They also have some radio friendly midtempo ballads such as "Four Letter Words" and "Dancin' On The Edge" which I think are very good as well. "Give It A Shot" is another spectacular uptempo track which puts Eric's sensational solos at the spotlight. Perhaps only "Justice" is the worst track here, while some decent tunes such as "Sudden Love Affair" or "Dawning of The Day" although somehow passable, they aren't horrible at all.

You can enjoy a crisp and clean production and with an amazing set of high quality songs, not to mention the extra ordinary vocal and remarkable guitars, Masquerade is a superb catch for fans of melodic metal, guitar virtuoso, and TNT itself. I probably won't label this 5-stars because of the originality issue and some weak songs, but this album definitely deserved a solid 9.0 and remained their best release ever.

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