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Overdrive - Angelmaker
Label: Lion Music
Format: CD download
Released: 2011
Reviewed By: Mark Gromen
Rating: 7/ 10
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Reactivated high pitched vocals, traditional 80s metal Swedes, all original but for the singer. ‘Signs All Over’ opener feels like an 80s track, a mix of Pretty Maids and Grave Digger, whereas the simple constructed ‘In Gut We Trust’ (and many of the remaining cuts) are built on a Sunset Strip swagger. As if to drive home the 80s point, there's a cover of a hit from the Queen of Sweden, former ABBA singer Frida's ‘I Know There's Something Going On’.
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‘Angelmaker’ is about paid Swedish women who disposed of unwanted babies, lethally, up until the 20s. Overdrive waits almost to the end to introduce a Maiden inspired, twin guitar speedster, ‘Cold Blood Chaser’, while the behemoth 10 minute ‘The Wavebreaker’ finale lasts 10:02, beginning and ending acoustically (accounting for about 40% of its length).
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