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Freedom Call | Eternity

Schlager on steroids.
CD, SPV/Zomba

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Publicatiedatum: 25 juli 2002

The first song on this abomination is called Metal Invasion. Metal invasion my ass. It's more like the German-synthi-boyband-pop-disguised-as-Helloween-style-metal invasion. And no matter how hard frontman Chris Bay tries to imitate Keeper Of The Seven Keys-era Helloween singer Michael Kiske, he won't succeed in resurrecting that particular part of glorious German history with crap like this. There're keyboards everywhere, but guitar solos are as rare as a dot-com stock that's gone up recently. Helloween seldom used keyboards and had great guitar duels between Michael Weikath and Kai Hansen. Drummer Dan Zimmerman is stuck in fifth gear and can only play one (high) tempo. Ten six-minute tracks at that one tempo gets boring, especially since every one of those six-minute tracks seems to be built around four ideas, at most. And some of them are bad ones, to boot. When Helloween made a ten-minute-plus opus, it was crammed full of brilliant ideas and tempo changes, so that it stayed interesting for its entire duration.

And just when you think you've made it through the album, there's track eleven, Turn Back Time. And no, the title isn't a good indication of this track's awfulness. There are tracks called Bleeding Heart, Flame In The Night, and Island Of Dreams on this album, so Turn Back Time doesn't even stand out in the Bad Title category. Musically, however, it is pure horror. Think Scorpions' worst power ballad. One that starts with an acoustic intro and then builds into unsurpassed, kitschy bombast, sort of like what a Schwarzwalder cuckoo clock would sound like if its its builder was a metalhead. Now think 100 times worse, with unbelievably crappy lyrics that actually include "dah dah dah," sung with a heavy German accent. Or even simpler: think schlager on steroids.

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