{"id":20739,"date":"2014-08-05T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=20739"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:10:15","slug":"album-review-adrenaline-rush-adrenaline-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-adrenaline-rush-adrenaline-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"ADRENALINE RUSH – Adrenaline Rush (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADRENALINE RUSH
Adrenaline Rush<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFrontiers (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 2.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m sorry, but when a press release for a forthcoming album feels the need to state that the band is \u201cfronted by one of the most talented and hottest chicks in today\u2019s hard rock scene\u201d<\/em>, I just have to hold my head in cringe-worthy shame. Surely we\u2019ve moved on from an era when bands were just about their look? And boy, have so many failed to live up to their image.<\/p>\n

With today\u2019s market saturated by alleged rock \u2019n\u2019 roll bands who look like they\u2019ve been dressed by their mothers before the promotional shoot, it appears that latest Frontiers Records \u201csensation\u201d Adrenaline Rush are just another flash in the proverbial pan.<\/p>\n

In fact, these Swedish rockers just about some up all that is wrong with contemporary rock \u2013 it\u2019s all clean-cut and polished but attempting to be down \u2019n\u2019 dirty, all the while failing miserably in the vocal department and lacking weight musically. It\u2019s the sort of Americanised plod rock that has no effect whatsoever on the ears because of its watery, stereotypical and, dare I say it, plastic fa\u00e7ade. <\/p>\n

There once was a time when thrash metal fans roared \u201cDeath to false metal!\u201d<\/em>, and it was this sort of commercial, pop-edged slop that they were referring to, because even the likes of glam rockers Poison seem downright heavyweight compared to this. <\/p>\n

For those who do want to know more or for some reason get high on this sickly mess, you may be interested to know that although Adrenaline Rush does not live up to their name they do boast a decent lead guitarist in Ludvig Turner (from Stockholm hard rockers Reach), but it\u2019s nigh on impossible for him to save the day as the band floats through a set of miserable songs.<\/p>\n

The lead track to promote this release is \u2018Change\u2019, a sort of late 80s styled bubble-gum rocker that so would have benefitted from having a gravelly vocal attached to it. The percussion of Marcus Johansson (also from Reach) is standard but sturdy and the rhythm of Alexander Hagman\u2019s guitar and Soufian Ma’Aoui\u2019s (Houston) bass gives the track a bit of a kick, but as with every number on the album it\u2019s all dragged down into a nasally inept delivery courtesy of T\u00e5ve Wanning. Wanning was previously a part of a teen techno pop duo known as Peaches, who are best known in Scandinavia for their 2001 hit single \u2018Rosa Helikopter\u2019 \u2013 and there she should have stayed.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the band labours through a set of tepid numbers only bolstered (as the press release is eager to inform) by the production of Erik M\u00e5rtensson, who in the past has worked with rock giants M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<\/a>, Warrant and contemporary sleazoids Crazy Lixx. But these qualities certainly do not rub on the music, as opener \u2018Black \u2018N\u2019 Blue\u2019 wafts in the room like a bad odour of formulaic chimes and that flat vocal delivery.<\/p>\n

And the endless drivel just keeps on coming to the point where I actually begin to feel sorry for the rest of the band who merely exist as a vehicle for T\u00e5ve Wanning\u2019s maladroit efforts. But if, and it\u2019s a big if, I had to pick a track that stands out, then it would probably be \u2018Generation Left Behind\u2019 which has a decent rattle in its structure and even Wanning has an extra snarl… but it still sounds if she needs to blow her nose afterwards. <\/p>\n

Oddly, this album could well appeal to a mass of teenagers who a) may find the vocalist attractive, and b) because this sort of tosh seems to sum up that well-polished act of false rebellion currently being rammed down our throats. However, if anyone with a strand of intelligence will swat this away like the miniscule fly that it is, but then again that\u2019s disrespectful to the fly because to sum up, Adrenaline Rush\u2019s debut offering is dire.<\/p>\n

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

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