Year : 1991 (Japan HR/HM 1000 Vol.5 Edition 2022)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Switzerland
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 135 mb
Bio:
China is a Hard Rock band from Switzerland.They celebrated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, international success in your albums reached the top 10 in each of Switzerland, and good rankings in the English, German and Japanese charts. China also gained notoriety through their changing singers. On each of their albums is heard another singer.China founded in 1985 by drummer John Dommen 1988 and signed a recording contract with Phonogram. In the cast Math Shiverow (vocals), Claudio Matteo (guitar), Freddy Laurence (guitar), Marc Lynn (bass) and John Dommen (drums) they take on the self-titled debut album. They receive support in the recordings of the two Crocus musicians Marc Storace (vocals) and Fernando von Arb (guitar). Storace sings some backing vocals and Von Arb wrote the song Back To You for the album.A tour as support for Victory follows the same way as another concert tour with Bonfire.Shiverow and Lynn left the band after the tour. Marc Lynn is rising a little later in the Gotthard , which are called at this time Krak. New singer is the former Krokus guitarist Patrick Mason and joins as the new bassist Brian Kofmehl of killer to the band.The next album Sign In The Sky falls, not least by working with producer Stephen Galfas from significantly more mature than the debut. The second single In The Middle Of The Night reached # 11 in the Swiss charts, the album lands at No. 2 But Mason does not stay in the band.Already on the tour he will be replaced by the American Eric St. Michaels, with China the live album Live China and the next studio album Go All The Way record. 1992 St. Michaels pulls back to America, which is why China complete the following gigs with three different singers. The main part takes Krokus singer Marc Storace. A recorded by Swiss Radio DRS Performance Live uff dr Gass of 1993 appears seven years later under the title Alive 2000 on CD.1995 China published their album Natural Groove , which comes up again with a new singer. Douglas McCowan distinguished here responsible for the vocals and the drums sits Giovanni Giorgi. After the album, the band is put on hold. In 2000, the band completed a tour China Revisited at the three singers are again at the start (Math Shiverow, Eric St. Michaels and Marc Storace).2003 come rumors that Patrick Mason (vocals), Claudio Matteo (guitar), Freddy Laurence (guitar), Brian Kofmehl (bass) and John Dommen (drums) are working on a new studio album. In May 2004, Freddy Laurence (aka Freddy Scherrer) increases as a substitute for Mandy Meyer at Gotthard one.In 2007, China reformed again and it is first time on 2 June 2007 at the Spirit of Rock together on stage again.After successful concerts in 2008 and 2009, China published in 2010 with the new guitarist Mack Schildknecht their fifth studio album in 15 years, Light Up The Dark . There follow in the summer including four as a support group of crocus.
Album:
Universal Music Japan did it again, a new campaign of their ‘HR/HM 1000‘ series – the Limited Release reissue of long time out of print albums from their Hard Rock / Heavy Metal catalog at the price of 1000 Yen = about 8 USD.Now it’s time for the second 2022 batch, ”HR-HM 1000 Vol.5”, and as part of these there’s the very good, criminally underrated “Go All The Way“, the third studio album from Swiss melodic hard rockers CHINA.For this 1991 album CHINA changed the lead vocalist – enter Eric St. Michaels – but what a great improvement. While the previous two albums from this group are awesome, “Go All The Way” is the most ‘American melodic rock’ ever from the band, and St. Michaels’ voice shine all over the record.Recorded in the USA with producer Stephan Galfas (Cher, Meat Loaf, Stryper) songs like ‘Slow Dancing in Hell’, ‘She Did a Real Good Job’, ‘Life Keeps Moving On’, ‘In Trouble With Angels’ or ‘Pictures Of You’ could have been written or recorded by the likes of Winger, Warrant or Steelheart.A band from Switzerland? If none tells you that, “Go All The Way” pass as one the most ‘American melodic rock sounding’ records appeared in 1991.This is polished, smoothly produced melodic stuff from a band that deserved stardom. There’s 15 songs in the tracklist but all are good and entertaining, so if you dig this genre then “Go All The Way” is a joy from start to finish.
Line Up:
Eric St. Michaels – Vocals
Claudio Matteo – Guitars
Freddy Laurence – Guitars
Brian Kofmehl – Bass
John Dommen – Drums
Tracklist:
01. Pictures of You 4:58
02. Medicine Man intro 0:26
03. Medicine Man 4:02
04. Slow Dancing in Hell 5:01
05. She Did a Real Good Job 4:06
06. So Damn Easy 5:11
07. Lost Gardens 0:44
08. Shake Your Cages 4:23
09. Go All the Way 5:09
10. Don't Let In the Night 4:29
11. In Love Again 4:27
12. Face to the Wind 0:57
13. In Trouble With Angels 4:02
14. Life Keeps Moving On 5:02
15. You've Got Me 5:16
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