EDGUY — Hellfire Club (review)

EDGUY — Hellfire Club album cover Album · 2004 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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I don’t know why but every time I am listening to Edguy’s songs, what in mind is a child happily playing around with his toys. Any reasons? I don’t know. It’s just what I feel. Unexceptionally is this latest effort from this band’s 2004 release “Hellfire Club”. It is a good? Yes, it is. This album rocks as hell. Starts off with an Edguy trade-mark happy metal track “Mysteria” then followed to a darker “The Piper Never Dies”. It will shock you how the first two tracks would be pretty much different. The following tracks (“We Don’t Need A Hero” and “Down To The Devil”) including the first single “King of Fools”. This one is a heavy track, even for an Edguy’s standard though. “Forever” is a ballad but somehow lost its soul. A standard ballad, a filler, nothing memorable.

“Under The Moon” is an Iron Maiden-ish track where Tobias Sammet even sings very similar to Bruce Dickinson’s trade mark. Nice chorus even though it is not a sing-a-long song. No wonder that “Lavatory Love Machine” is the next single off from this album. It is a happy power metal tune with a pop tune. Nice effort, guys! Those crunchy rhythm guitars will surely catch audience’s ears. Unfortunately, the last four closing tracks almost bore me. Tobias probably needs to improve his singing performance. He’s got a good voice but it seems he delivers the ‘same soul’ on each song, which in effect makes the songs taste similarly through out the whole record. “Rise of The Morning Glory” is a good and catchy fast power metal track but it has the same soul as “Navigator”. Thanks to the rhythm guitar section which delivers different soul to both tracks. Even the album close ballad “The Spirit Will Remain” is offering nothing different. Even in comparison with the previous ballad “Forever”.

If you’re lucky enough, you can get the special edition disc with two bonus tracks, “Children of The Steel” and “Mysteria” as additional tracks. “Children of the Steel” is a fast track. It is surprisingly good that Tobias sings with full emotion here. Wish he’d delivered the similar emotion through out the record. While the latter is “Mysteria”, another version very much similar to the studio album version plus Kreator’s singer Mille Petrozza as guest singer.

My conclusion is Hellfire Club is a great album. Even slightly better compared to their previous efforts. But this band needs to take a further journey beyond their creativity otherwise this CD will be stop played after few spins.
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