{"id":22449,"date":"2014-10-31T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=22449"},"modified":"2014-11-18T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:17:34","slug":"album-review-danger-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-danger-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"DANGER – Danger (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DANGER
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\nStale (2014)<\/span>
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With names such as Rob Nasty and Jesse Kid I knew what was coming with Sweden\u2019s Danger and their latest self-titled album. Yep, you guessed it; this is more hyped up glam-slam shock rock that spends all of its time pretending to be something it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, but there is a bucket load of bands of this ilk doing the rounds, all dreaming that they are strolling down the Sunset Strip in LA surrounded by girls and swigging whiskey, but it\u2019s just a modern parody made seemingly necessary by our want for the past and it just doesn\u2019t bloody work.<\/p>\n

Hell, these guys sure do have the look \u2013 big hair, tight lycra and even a hint of an American accent \u2013 but dudes, c\u2019mon. This is music that\u2019ll surely only appeal to people who have no clue as to who Hanoi Rocks, M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<\/a> etc. were or are. I just don\u2019t understand the appeal of a Swedish band singing songs about Hollywood or living the American dream when clearly they appear as something more manufactured.<\/p>\n

And so it\u2019s a case of sleaze-edged bubblegum metal which begins with the pompous strut of \u2018D.C.A. Hollywood\u2019; a tepid pastiche of influences and yet bereft of attitude or know-how which leaves me wondering if they\u2019ve even listened to the bands they claim to be influenced by? For some it seems to be all about the image, and yet the look suggests a bunch of youths who\u2019ve never spent the night sleeping in an alley for fear of messing that hair up and it is reflected in the squeaky sound.<\/p>\n

\u2018Body To Body\u2019 is a derivative glam rock stomp where the vocals are delivered with such a struggle as the band attempts to ape M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce but just cannot even pull off mimicry. With its watery predictable plastic glam rock imitation-by-numbers \u2013 whether it\u2019s the derivative \u2018California Red\u2019, the slow-building \u2018On The Rocks\u2019 or the shocking \u2018Rockstar\u2019 with its childlike structures and dreadful lyrics \u2013 I\u2019m just gonna lay it on the table now and say that stuff like this isn\u2019t far removed from teenage pop punk, but this is on another planet when compared to real glam \/ sleaze rock. Whether it\u2019s the highly praised Crashd\u00efet or the offensively inoffensive Reckless Love, there\u2019s only so much a man can take when it comes to bands pissing on the past.<\/p>\n

With many claiming that old school metal is back, I only have to present garbage like this to question the wisdom of that statement. Sure, I guess bands have to start from somewhere but when \u2013 perish the thought \u2013 The X Factor<\/em> dreams up some sort of national TV contest for rock bands, then I\u2019d expect stuff like Danger to be paraded around as eye candy for the teenage girls.<\/p>\n

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

DANGERDanger Stale (2014)Rating: 3\/10 With names such as Rob Nasty and Jesse Kid I knew what was coming with Sweden\u2019s Danger and their latest self-titled album. Yep, you guessed it; this is more hyped up glam-slam shock rock that spends all of its time pretending to be something it isn\u2019t. I\u2019m sorry, but there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-danger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22452,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449\/revisions\/22452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}