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Dave Wyndorf has returned! Hallelujah ladies and gentlemen, the time for some real kick-ass rock'n'roll is here, once again provided by the filthy rockers of Monster-fuckin'-Magnet, baby! Oh yeah! Two years after 'Powertrip ', indeed a trip full of powerrock, they've again parked their spaceship at your doorstep with their new release, titled 'God Says No'. On their earlier albums sounding like the heavy reincarnation of space-rockers Hawkwind, they abandonded that style on the last two albums for a more straight-forward and less psychedelic kind of rock, somewhere between Black Sabbath and MC5. And although many old fans dissaproved of that change, it has to be said that the new compact rock sound of 'Powertrip' looked good on Monster Magnet. Completely over-the-top rock'n'roll with thick layers of cynism and sharp sarcasm, and frontman Dave Wyndorf felt totally at ease as a rock God entertainer. Each Monster Magnet album sounded somewhat different from the one before, but on this 'God Says No' album that development has stopped, unfortunately. First song 'Melt' is a very strong melodic rock song, which very much echoes 'Dopes to Infinity', the album before 'Powertrip'. Good opening song, which is directly followed by the current single 'Heads Explode', which could have been a 'Powertrip' song. And mentioning those two albums, 'Dopes' and 'Powertrip', this album is a mixture of those two albums, and that is very much the problem with 'God Says No'. The melodic aspects of 'Dopes' and the straight-forward rock'n'roll of 'Powertrip' provide an album full of good, catchy songs, but many times I got the feeling I heard a melody or a riff that was already used on one of their former albums. Only the title track is somewhat more original, here they sound like a modern day version of the Doors, and sometimes they use electronics for a slightly more modern sound. The rest just sounds so familiar that after two listenings I could easily sing along. Not that it's always a bad thing, the songs are good and will definitely work in a live setting, the band plays well, and Wyndorf's vocals get better on every new release. And maybe it was their aim to make a catchy album, with good rock songs, without making it too hard on themselves and the listeners. They succeeded in doing so, but anyone who hoped for a new or more original approach will be somewhat dissapointed, I think. By the way, the album cover is within a distance the ugliest I've seen this year, but the band photographs on the cover and inside the booklet are so ugly and over the top, they shouldn' t be taken seriously at all. At least not by me.
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