Gamma Ray's Reviews
Powerplant (Average Rating: 7.48 out of 10)
high powered boredom (Rated this album with 4 out of 10)
Reviewed by
booboo bear
from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
Ever get the feeling that you're travelling at the speed of sound with your hair blowing back and skin on your face stretching from the sheer velocity... only to open your eyes and see grandma waving at you from outside your dad's stationwagon? This album (CD) is like that! Kind of like spinning your tires or revving [up] a high performance engine stuck in neutral. High energy from beginning to end and full of righteous/noble noises with coverart reminiscent of an old Marvel comic book. I've never been sooooo bored with an album in my life. The vocals are absolutely laughable from the constant pretense of duty and honor so lamely overdone in the same style as a few hundred (or thousand... it's like counting peanuts in a barrel) rehashed acts in the mid eighties. Powerplant is but a walking shadow strutting and fretting it's 66 minutes upon the stage... a work full of sound and fury signifying nothing. I'm giving this CD a 2 but only for the comic relief. Given the advances and innovations in audio styles and technologies it's hard to believe that this is the best a German band could come up with. It's almost as if some marketing exec decided to rehype the same old formula/recipe put a new and improved flaming tinfoil wrapper on it and pretend it's not a Big Mac. BBB
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