Year : 2013
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Italy
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 117 mb
Bio:
The Italian Rock Band RAIN has been active since 1980. Three generations of musicians have passed beneath this name and they have ridden the rock influences of their respective periods, turning RAIN in a veritable team of the Italian Rock . Moving on from the Heavy Metal of their early records up to the modern sounds of the latest album and experimenting new atmospheres with acoustic rock in their last studio LP: “MEXICAN WAY”.In their early years they performed live mostly in Bologna, the hometown of all the first members of the group. Year after year their local popularity increased, persuading them to expand their audience to nearby cities. Despite the many line-up changes, RAIN’s work became more and more determined to keep the road of Rock, releasing their first album of original songs on cassette. Between 1998 and 2007, RAIN released two albums : “BIGDITCH 4707”, distributed by the Greek ETERNAL SHADOWS, and “HEADSHAKER”, product for the French label Deadsun RECORDS . The long promoting tours of these two LPs brought RAIN to be known all over the Italy and even in Europe. PAUL DI ANNO (first Iron Maiden frontman) MICHAEL SCHENKER , UDO , IRON SAVIOR, and HELSTAR, are just some of the big names that the Italian band has had to support . Thanks to this intense live activity , the Italian band matured international experience and began to receive good reviews for their high level performances . Worth mentioning their appearance at Arezzo LOVE WAVE 2005 as the band recommended by METAL HAMMER and the memorable show in Slovenia at METAL CAMP 2005 with EXCITER, ANTHRAX , MALMSTEEN, CHILDREN OF BODOM, SLAYER, etc ... In 2008 they released “DAD IS DEAD”, containing 12 unreleased tracks and a cover. As guest Steve Sylvester singing the legendary “Rain” of the Cult. Record produced and distributed by AURAL MUSIC all over the world and in Italy by Audioglobe . The promotional tour for “Dad is Dead” brought Rain truly worldwide: Finland, Germany, Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Denmark supporting Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN singer 1994-1999) and to tour a month (March 2010) in the United States (coast to coast) with W.A.S.P. Their work continued in 2011 with the album “XXX”, an anthology of the band's 30-years career, where they rearranged and re-interpreted some of the most significant songs of the previous album. The label Aural Music reaffirmed its confidence in the group. On October 15, 2011 in Tilburg, Netherlands, began “XXX TOUR” that led them once again around Italy and Europe. In October 2013 “MEXICAN WAY” has been published: an acoustic experience, new for them, who needed to express themselves in different ways, as already tested in two of their historical songs rearranged in “XXX” . The album immediately received excellent reviews and after six months only went out of print. Aural Music was once again attended to deal with the national and foreign distribution. Very enjoyable, among the 12 tracks, are two songs in Spanish: “Mexican Way”, the title track, and “Whiskey and the Route 666” (already present in “XXX” in its English version). “MEXICAN WAY” also contains two highly successful Mexican sound cover: “Tijuana Jail” by Gilby Clarke and “Ride Like the Wind” by Christopher Cross . Currently the band is busy with the Mexican Way Italian tour to promote the eponymous album. Started in March 2014 in Rome, it has already visited the cities of Bologna, Padua and Milan. It will continue in Ferrara, Brescia to be back in Bologna and then back again to Milan. In July they’ll also participate at the Total Metal Festival in Bari. During this tour RAIN perform both in acoustic and electric and they introduce their hits taken from “DAD IS DEAD” and “XXX” and cross-over versions of songs from “MEXICAN WAY”. After the arriving of the new singer Mantis le Sin, the RAIN’s team has renewed its incentives to continue their productive work with Aural Music, the label to which they are engaged to release a new album in electric by the end of 2014. From April 2014 RAIN's management has been entrusted to David Tonioni, since years already member of the RAINCREW (team of loyal supporters and partners of the band).
Album:
Italian hard rock band release an album of unplugged tracks with a Mexican theme. Hmmmmmmmm. Like having a chianti with your chimichanga. I was sceptical and it turns out with good reason.Rain are an accomplished hard rock band who have chosen to celebrate a recent trip to Mexico with an unplugged (mostly) album of their favourite tracks from South of the Border (or that at least mention Mayheeco).The album opens with Mexican Way which sounds like the sort of tosh that was playing in the Titty Twister in Dusk til Dawn but without the Nu Metal (titty) twist. Second track Hard Proof is sub Jovi junk which did nothing to warm me to this tortilla of twaddle.Eleven Days and Fallen Angel continue in the same vein whilst also adding Eurovision and Poison influences to the soup.What comes next simply blows me away with its cringe inducing power. Ride Like the Wind complete with bongos and comical vocals really has to be heard to be believed. If Phoenix Nights had ever featured a rock group Rain would have been it. They make Roland Rivron’s Raw Sex sound like Emperor. I am sure Rain have many fans throughout the world who appreciate what these chaps do. They can certainly play and have plenty of passion (nice personalities naar mean?).These mean hombres cover Gilby Clarke’s Tijuana Jail and give it a good go. The guitarist gives it his all but the Sorry meeester officer chorus grates from the get go.Whitemoon follows and in Spinal Tap fashion I can only say Shitemoon.Love in the Back has an Aerosmith vibe and a bass groove which has my head swaying a little before descending into a country and western solo. Nothing so far is new just a bunch of sub G n R tribute band b sides and some stereo typed clichéd ideas of Mexico/ Latin music.How can it get worse you say.A fucking Foo Fighters cover! There we go. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooom. Times like These hits my ears like a cluster bomb of razor blades dipped in napalm. Awful just awful. I feel like giving myself up to the CIA outside my house, then realising that I am choosing to play this and it is not being pumped in as some torture technique.Finally the journey down Mexico Way is reaching its end . The only thing standing in the way, blocking this border run is Bangbus. Don’t put the title into google if you are at work !
Tracklist:
01. Mexican Way 04:00
02. Hard Proof 03:15
03. Eleven Days 03:22
04. Fallen Angel 05:14
05. Ride like the Wind 04:40
06. Whisky En La Ruta 666 04:21
07. Bet that I Lie 03:37
08. Tijuana Jail 04:02
09. Whitemoon 04:21
10. Love in the Back 03:54
11. Times like These 03:58
12. Bangbus 04:16
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