{"id":3277,"date":"1987-10-01T00:00:04","date_gmt":"1987-10-01T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:43:00","slug":"demo-review-wildee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-wildee\/","title":{"rendered":"WILDEE – Demo (1987) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WILDEE<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nWildee (1987)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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From Rome in Italy, Wildee were first featured in Metal Forces<\/em> back in issue #18, when they went under the moniker of Mayhem. Now it\u2019s fairly obvious why they decided to change the name, so it\u2019s no surprise to find that they\u2019ve actually changed direction too; less European sounding, now more in the vein of Dokken.<\/p>\n

Wildee, comprised of Gianluca Lombardi (vocals), Rudy Costa (guitar), Ray Sperlonga (bass) and Alex Infascelli (drums \/ keyboards), are pretty much an engima within the Italian rock community in these days of thrash \/ hardcore metal, because Dokken-style music is not particularly very popular over there, and in Rome in particular. But these guys don\u2019t care. After all, it\u2019s bands like Dokken and Poison that get all the chicks \u2013 even in Italy (right Bret?!!). And you don\u2019t need to talk to me about Italian girls!!!<\/p>\n

Anyway, gettin\u2019 back into reviewin\u2019 the band rather than goin\u2019 off on a tasty tangent, Wildee recently sent over their brand new three-song demo for my edification and it ain\u2019t bad. Though, in comparison to the Mayhem stuff, I do feel Gianluca is trying too hard to sing in the Don Dokken way, and it doesn\u2019t work. I much prefer that Mad Man Axel growl dude! This problem arises in all three of the songs.<\/p>\n

\u2018Life Walks Through Danger\u2019 (apparently inspired by a certain female) is the first cut. The choruses are very strong, plenty of clout in the backing vocals, but really, Gianluca\u2019s voice is straining too much. Face facts, you\u2019re a much better shouter, man. There\u2019s some good effects on the cut and the playing is good\u2019n\u2019tight, but the production does spoil things; more the fault of a bad mix actually.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bottch The Devils\u2019 is about a fantasy game invented by Wildee, based upon something akin to Rollerball. Italian humour for ya! There\u2019s some tasty wenches drafted in on backing vocals here and a good guitar break from Rudy Costa. Apparently, the name of the sport is \u2018Bottch\u2019 and is a totally sexist idea whereby girls in American football gear, with long legs and big tits, fight it out between each other. In this instance, the lyrics tell of one such girl player (Ray\u2019s girlfriend!!) about to make her debut against another team called \u2018The Devils\u2019.<\/p>\n

Lastly, \u2018Venture Maniac\u2019 rounds things off. Talk about a Dokken rip-off! Luca gets into his Don Dokken outfit and dreams of all those adoring little cuties throwing their underwear at him. And why not?! I do that sometime too. Ha! Ha! This is actually where he puts in his best performance on the tape, though I feel the production ruins the whole atmosphere of the song. What was the engineer on?!<\/p>\n

All in all though, if Wildee can iron out the problems the tape highlights then we could be talkin\u2019 about a potential Italian supergroup. And there aren\u2019t many of them about! Remember: Bottch it to the top!! (Sounds pretty filthy doesn\u2019t it?!).<\/p>\n

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

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 26 (1987)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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