{"id":14255,"date":"2013-08-30T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=14255"},"modified":"2013-09-12T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:17:07","slug":"album-review-reckless-love-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-reckless-love-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"RECKLESS LOVE – Spirit (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

RECKLESS LOVE
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\nSpinefarm (2013)<\/span>
Rating: 3\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Finland\u2019s Reckless Love is a band you\u2019ll either love or hate. They are very much part of the whole metal revival scene, with numerous bands \u2013 of varying genres \u2013 from thrash to glam. These bands hope to reinvent the steel and bring back those glorious days of the 80s back to the masses. The main problem with so many of these bands, however, is that there is something so overtly plastic and almost manufactured about their sound. <\/p>\n

Reckless Love have been in existence since 2001, but their debut self-titled opus didn\u2019t emerge until 2010 and was followed up by the more successful 2011 offering Animal Attraction<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As one would expect from bands of this ilk, they are fronted by the charismatic blonde bombshell Olli Herman, who once sang for Swedish sleaze metallers Crashd\u00efet. Herman is accompanied by Pepe (guitar), Jalle Verne (bass) and Hessu Max (drums)<\/p>\n

On this new opus Reckless Love tread that oh so familiar ground that original bands such as M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Bon Jovi, Poison, Ratt etc. had worn so thin back in the mid-to-late 80s. The big question with bands such as Reckless Love, Crashd\u00efet and Steel Panther, is \u201cDo we really want to hear this sort of stuff again, and yet played with less sincerity?\u201d The answer has to be a resounding \u201cNo\u201d. <\/p>\n

Reckless Love are one of a number of acts playing glam-by-numbers heavy rock that simply takes all the best bits from the 80s hair metal scene, throws it all together, and then expects us to take it seriously. I guess if you\u2019ve never heard the bands I\u2019ve mentioned, then Reckless Love may prove to be a rewarding experience. There\u2019s only so many clich\u00e9s I can take though, because not only is Spirit<\/em> so lyrically inept, but quite often it\u2019s extremely irritating \u2013 \u2018Favorite Flavor\u2019 and \u2018I Love Heavy Metal\u2019 for instance. And that\u2019s without the Shakira-inspired glam rock chants of \u2018Night On Fire\u2019, with its sprinkled keyboards and those \u201cfire\u201d<\/em> rhymed with \u201cdesire\u201d<\/em> lyrics, as the band transform into any number of 80s mimics ranging from Def Leppard to M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce et al.<\/p>\n

Musically, Reckless Love are a mere parody, whatever their talent, and I don\u2019t personally see how this type of metal can be taken seriously. While Steel Panther perform with tongue firmly in cheek, I\u2019m convinced that deep down Restless Love consider themselves a serious glam rock band. When you hear the atrocious lyrics to \u2018Bad Lovin\u2019, the formulaic sways of \u2018Edge Of Our Dreams\u2019 or the bubble-gum strut of \u2018Sex, Drugs & Reckless Love\u2019, even the biggest lycra-wearing glam disciples among you will surely find this album one sickly dessert too many. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not falling for the look either \u2013 again, the band lack any type of sincerity. It\u2019s as if they\u2019ve strolled off the \u201cGlam Rock X-Factor\u201d, such is the pristine pout. Why this cheesy, derivative brand of hair metal is proving so popular I\u2019ll never know, but hopefully just one spin of the Skid Row-aped \u2018Metal Ass\u2019 or the sickly ballad \u2018Hot Rain\u2019 will have you reaching for your original vinyl that you saved from the 80s. Reckless Love need to decide whether they are a joke band or not, but either way I\u2019m not really interested. For me, this is the music equivalent to pissing on the grave of those great times and bands of the 80s.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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