{"id":3112,"date":"1985-01-01T00:00:49","date_gmt":"1985-01-01T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:09:56","slug":"demo-review-mania-break-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-mania-break-the-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"MANIA – Break The Silence (1984) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MANIA<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nBreak The Silence (1984)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mania come from Hamburg and have been around since early 1983. They\u2019ve had two demos released, the first eliciting response from the grand daddy of underground metal mags, Aardschok<\/em>. The German band\u2019s most recent demo, Break The Silence<\/em>, found its way into Metal Forces<\/em>\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n

A six-track affair, it does display some musical ability, but in the main the songs all sound the same, particularly where the rhythm section is concerned; the exception being the horrendous ballad, \u2018I\u2019ve Got A Dream\u2019. Ugh!<\/p>\n

Two tracks do rate on the Richter scale though. \u2018Hard Rock, Women and Whiskey\u2019 (cliche! cliche! cliche!) has a memorable middle section where the band (Uli Kurth on vocals, Thies Bendixen and Frank Nottelmann on guitars, Didy Mackel on bass and Matthias Eisele on drums) whip up a storm with some pretty intense playing.<\/p>\n

\u2018Break The Silence\u2019 is my other choice cut, which is nice and heavy and where I can compare Uli\u2019s vocals with Bodine\u2019s Mad Man Axel (circa Bold As Brass). A six-track mini-LP is in the works as well as a French tour with Blaspheme.<\/p>\n

Dave Reynolds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 9 (1985)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANIA Break The Silence (1984) Mania come from Hamburg and have been around since early 1983. They\u2019ve had two demos released, the first eliciting response from the grand daddy of underground metal mags, Aardschok. The German band\u2019s most recent demo, Break The Silence, found its way into Metal Forces\u2019 hands. A six-track affair, it does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-mania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3776,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}