Year : 2013 (Japan Edition)
Style : Glam Metal , Hard Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Videos
Size : 183 mb
Bio:
Crashdïet (often stylized as CRASHDÏET) are a Swedish glam metal band from Stockholm. They have released four albums: 2005's Rest in Sleaze, 2007's The Unattractive Revolution, 2010s Generation Wild and 2013's The Savage Playground...The band was originally formed in 2000. Taking influence from Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Guns N' Roses, and Hanoi Rocks, Crashdïet built up a cult following with the release of their first demos, several of which were released on their official website via download.In 2002, the band split up, and vocalist Dave Lepard reformed the band with members from the current lineup,while the old members went to play in Repugnant and SubVision. In 2003 Crashdiet released their first self-titled EP, though only 500 copies were pressed. In 2004 they got signed to Universal Records after people in the staff saw the band drinking outside a liquor store and was impressed by their Rock n' Roll image
Album:
Something amazing has happened ladies and gentlemen - we may have just gotten the album of the year and it’s only the end of January! Yes, you heard me correctly — album of the fricken year! I have been a Crashdiet fan since 2009 and the release of Generation Wild when that furiously devilish album grabbed me by the throat and ripped me a new one. Since then, it has been four long years without new material from one of the most promising bands ‘this side of Hudson Bay’. But finally the wait has ended and now we are inclined to enter the Savage Playground. I will try to make this review as least gushy as possible, but it will be quite difficult seeing as the material on this album has stunned me from the first listening session.Upon entering the playground, you will immediately be greeted with a more muddled production. But do not let this hold you back because the caliber of these thirteen songs (fourteen if you include bonus track “Liquid Jesus”) are actually enhanced by the production in overall heaviness and sleaze-ability. Walk a few paces into the center of the playground, you will be greeted with a quick but fiery jab in the chest from “Change the World” — a track that leaves you breathless and actually wanting to the change the dreary world of mainstream pop music and instate Crashdiet as the rightful kings of radio. You cannot breathe for a second but you quickly catch your breath when you see the “Cocaine Cowboys” slinking towards you — they’re mean and nasty, but fun and head-banginly good. If you have not heard “Cocaine Cowboys” yet (shame on you and get the hell off this page) they speak of something called ‘Anarchy’ and becoming intrigued you follow them into the sewers beneath the playground itself. There you are greeted with what may be the most fist-pumping, blood boiling anthem of the year. “Anarchy” is short, sweet, and to the point… but it is oh so good! Ahead a light is shimmering, the ‘cowboys’ show a city underground directly underneath the playground. It looks strangely like “California” which has such a killer groove and chorus that you would be damned before leaving.As you walk the underground city streets, you spot a “Lickin’ Dog” and hear one of the best guitar riffs off the album as well as some of the angriest lyrics Crashdiet has ever dared pen. A “Circus” looms up ahead but you are hesitant to enter. The frenzy of the verses plus the unadulterated fun of the chorus are enough to shake you up and get you running. You run so far that you end up in “Sin City” which feels so ’80s hair metal-tastic and is defiantly the most retro sounding song on the album. Now you “Got A Reason” to stop and listen for a second — the chorus to this one is insanely catchy and the verses crooned by good ole Simon Cruz are almost too sleazy, if that were actually possible. Soon enough, you enter a bar and begin “Drinkin’ Without You” which has one hell of a rhythm and a great solo by none other than Martin Sweet with Eric Young and Peter London frantically dueling alongside. Suddenly, you spot some “Snakes In Paradise” which is undoubtedly the sexiest and sleaziest anthem Crashdiet has ever written. The chorus is sweet and the vocals are just my cup of hair metal tea. You see across the bar a “Damaged Kid” drinking and you become “Exited” in a hurry to speak with her because she is dazzlingly beautiful. These two songs are just great with some killer riffing, soloing, singing, and of course lyrics going on. Did I forget to mention that the lyrics on this album are outstanding? After drinking your fill, you step back outside and are greeted to a new setting, the daunting and gasoline fueled “Garden Of Babylon”. Now this is how you end an album! Finally a band gets it where they do not need to play pointlessly for seven odd minutes just to end the album on a sour note. Crashdiet have achieved the unthinkable and actually made a sleaze epic with this one! My God, the sheer power of the vocals and chorus is enough to sell me on a band that has never given up even in the face of tragedy.This album, this playground, is the real deal folks. I cannot quite put into words the happiness I have with finally adding this album to my collection. All I can say is, thank you Crashdiet… thank you so much for changing my world.
Line Up:
Simon Cruz – vocals
Martin Sweet – guitar
Peter London – bass
Eric Young – drums
Production:
Produced by Otto Welton
Tracklist:
01. Change The World
02. Cocaine Cowboys
03. Anarchy
04. California
05. Lickin' Dog
06. Circus
07. Sin City
08. Got A Reason
09. Drinkin Without You
10. Snakes In Paradise
11. Damaged Kid
12. Excited
13. Garden Of Babylon
14. Night Hellride (Japan Bonus Track)
+ Video "Anarchy" (Official Video)
+ Video "California" (Official Video)
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