Blind Ego (GERMANY)

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Blind Ego - Liquid (2016)











Year : 2016
Style : Melodic Progressive Hard Rock
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + front + Video
Size : 124 mb

Bio:

Kalle Wallner took seven years to complete his third solo effort. While 2007’s debut Mirror sounded smooth and almost melancholic, the Freising-native Bavarian utilized the figurative steam hammer on 2009’s Numb and served the audience with a tough as nails monster of hard rock heavily influenced by metal. Liquid now fuses the two earlier approaches without merely being a thrown together sum of its parts. In fact the elements were organically merged – and the result contains nine pieces of music that offer everything: from mighty hard rock melodies to brutal heavy metal riffing action all the way to emotionally charged passages. By means of those tools, Liquid ultimately completes a comprehensive artistic process that saw its beginning years ago. In the center of all this there is Kalle Wallner’s both virtuoso as well as effective style of guitar playing that unifies all the energy streams in one collective soul.


Album:

Blind Ego is the solo side project of Kalle Wallner of RPWL. Being a big fan of RPWL, I had meant to check out the last Blind Ego album “Numb” but of course I got distracted by the pile of music that happens to me. So I was glad that Wallner decided to release another Blind Ego album and that it showed up in my review queue.First off, Wallner is one of the most underrated guitarists on the planet. He has the feel of David Gilmour (of course) but has an added gear that Gilmour doesn’t have or use. One of the nice things about “Liquid” is that it’s more of a prog metal album versus the prog rock that RPWL plays. The songs are all well written, well arranged and have killer hooks.So what’s my issue with it? Well, there are multiple vocalists which isn’t a bad thing necessarily. The problem is that one vocalist is fucking amazing, Arno Menses of Subsignal (huge fan of his voice) and the other, Erik Ez Blomkvist, I find incredibly annoying. Blomkvist does every cheesy over emotive move in the book and on “Never Escape the Storm” he tries way too hard to sound bad ass. It just never works.Besides those two, Aaron Brooks of psych rockers Simeon Soul Charger does a solid job on the closing track “Speak the Truth” but again, I kept wondering how it would sound if Menses sang it. It would have sounded better. The instrumental track “Quiet Anger” is a favorite and it points out that maybe no vocalists were needed for ANY of the songs. Panzerballet’s Heiko Jung supplies some SICK bass on the track.With a few tweaks, “Liquid” could have been an album on my best of 2016 list. The music and melodies are THAT strong. I do hope people check out this album because maybe you’ll like Blomkvist more than I do. But regardless of that, Kalle Wallner shows that he is a great songwriter and multi dimensional guitarist. “Liquid” has no ego attached to it, blind or otherwise

Line Up:

Kalle Wallner - guitars (RPWL)
Sebastian Harnack (SYLVAN)
Ralf Schwager (SUBSIGNAL)
Heiko Jung (PANZER BALLET)
Michael Schwager (ex-DREAMSCAPE)
Arno Menses
Erik Blomkvist
Aaron Brooks

Tracklist:

01. A Place In The Sun
02. Blackened
03. What If
04. Not Going Away
05. Never Escape The Storm
06. Tears And Laughter
07. Hear My Voice Out There
08. Quiet Anger
09. Speak The Truth

+ Video "Blackened" (Official Video)




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Blind Ego - Preaching To The Choir (2020)













Year : 2020
Style : Melodic Progressive Hard Rock
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 115 mb

Bio:

Kalle Wallner took seven years to complete his third solo effort. While 2007’s debut Mirror sounded smooth and almost melancholic, the Freising-native Bavarian utilized the figurative steam hammer on 2009’s Numb and served the audience with a tough as nails monster of hard rock heavily influenced by metal. Liquid now fuses the two earlier approaches without merely being a thrown together sum of its parts. In fact the elements were organically merged – and the result contains nine pieces of music that offer everything: from mighty hard rock melodies to brutal heavy metal riffing action all the way to emotionally charged passages. By means of those tools, Liquid ultimately completes a comprehensive artistic process that saw its beginning years ago. In the center of all this there is Kalle Wallner’s both virtuoso as well as effective style of guitar playing that unifies all the energy streams in one collective soul.

Album:

Following the successful studio album "Liquid" (2016) and the magical live CD/DVD at Loreley recorded in the pouring rain, Blind Ego is back with a new album. And boy, is there a new storm heading your way. Forged in the fire of two successful club headliner tours and various festivals, the Blind Ego line-up has proven consistent and become what is probably one of the most tight-knit, hardest rocking bands on the circuit. And it's this stability that you can hear and feel on the new tracks. For with stability comes a sense of identity. And with identity comes the self-esteem to stand taller, push further and ... rock harder. Listen to a few songs and you'll know exactly what Kalle means when he says that "for me, this band is pure raw energy." Looking back to the first album in 2007, the sound and songwriting have taken enormous leaps with every album. All striving, pushing, excelling to capture the true essence and sound Kalle Wallner has in mind at that time. His growth as a musician and as a human being has now found its outlet and climax in "Preaching To The Choir".

Line Up:

Kalle Wallner - guitars (RPWL)
Scott Balaban (v)
Julian Kellner (g)
Sebastian Harnack (b)
Michael Christoph (d)

Tracklist:

01. Massive
02. Preaching To The Choir
03. Burning Alive
04. Line In The Sand
05. Dark Paradise
06. In Exile
07. Heading For The Stars
08. Broken Land
09. The Pulse




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Blind Ego - The Hunting Party (2024)











Year : 2024
Style : Melodic Progressive Hard Rock
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 99 mb

Bio:

Kalle Wallner took seven years to complete his third solo effort. While 2007’s debut Mirror sounded smooth and almost melancholic, the Freising-native Bavarian utilized the figurative steam hammer on 2009’s Numb and served the audience with a tough as nails monster of hard rock heavily influenced by metal. Liquid now fuses the two earlier approaches without merely being a thrown together sum of its parts. In fact the elements were organically merged – and the result contains nine pieces of music that offer everything: from mighty hard rock melodies to brutal heavy metal riffing action all the way to emotionally charged passages. By means of those tools, Liquid ultimately completes a comprehensive artistic process that saw its beginning years ago. In the center of all this there is Kalle Wallner’s both virtuoso as well as effective style of guitar playing that unifies all the energy streams in one collective soul.

Album:

BLIND EGO is back! The guitarist of the German flagship art rock band RPWL Kalle Wallner has made good on his promise and recorded a new album. Compared to his main band RPWL, “The Hunting Party” pushes the pedal down considerably in favour of rock and metal elements. The new album is his fifth studio album since his debut in 2007. He also released a live album in 2017 and his “almost-instrumental” album “Voices” under his own name in 2022. Wallner never seems to run out of ideas or the desire to produce – despite his main band RPWL, his own label Gentle Art Of Music, his recording studio and many other projects as a producer and guitarist.The tour for the last album “Preaching To The Choir” was not under a good star. For many fans, these concerts in spring 2020 were the last immediately before the coronavirus lockdown and the last concert experiences for many months. All further BLIND EGO concerts were also cancelled, bringing the project to an abrupt halt. However, Wallner was by no means bored. Together with drummer Marco Minnemann, he produced his personal “coronavirus instrumental album” called “Voices” in lockdown, with just one song sung by Arno Menses (Subsignal).

Line Up:

Kevin Kearns - vocals
Kalle Wallner - guitars (RPWL)
Julian Kellner - guitar
Sebastian Harnack - bass
Michael Christoph - drums

Tracklist:

01. The Hunting Party
02. The Stranger
03. Spiders
04. Boiling Point
05. In A Blink Of An Eye
06. Breathless
07. When The Party's Over




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