The Germans of 'Bonfire' had given us at the beginning of 2020 an excellent album with 'Fistful of Fire' and, like many groups that have taken advantage of this 2020 year, for lack of concerts (we are overwhelmed with very good albums at the beginning of 2021, difficult to follow the rhythm !), they offer us a new album but a bit special because they decided to reinterpret compositions from their old albums in semi-acoustic, the electric guitar having been disconnected. We thus find, first of all, a sort of best of from their various albums with a preponderant place for their first opus (in total 11 compositions of their first 3 albums 'Don't touch the Light' of 1986, 'Fire Works' from 1987 and 'Point Blank' from 1989), the rest being made up of 5 compositions from their 3 last album and only 3 titles between the two periods (thus finally the good times of the beginning and of the last 4 years). Of course, the semi-acoustic style lends itself very well to the beautiful ballads that they have been able to compose during all these years and we find mostly melodic nuggets that are 'Let Me Be Your Water', 'Comin' Home', 'Give It A Try', 'Who's Foolin 'Who', 'When An Old Man Cries', 'Love Don´t Lie' or even 'Lonely Nights' and so on. But, in addition, the icing on the cake, they have concocted for the occasion five new compositions which can be found at the end of the album, in short, only good 'Bonfire', with two new ballads 'Your Love Is Heaven To Me' and 'Our Hearts Don´t Feel The Same' which I added directly to my playlist 'Rock/hard-rock/metal ballads'.
In summary, this last album of 'Bonfire' is a new great offering from the Germans because, on the one hand it returns to the first period of the group with essential titles and, on the other hand, offers five new compositions which are well in line with the three very good last albums, which makes 'Roots' an album intended not only for fans of this formation, but also for a wider audience because 'Bonfire' still shows a once that they are an essential group in the international hard-rock landscape...
List of tracks with their original albums :
01 – Starin' Eyes (Don't touch the Light, 1986)
02 – American Nights (Fire Works, 1987)
03 – Let Me Be Your Water (The Räuber, 2008)
04 – The Price Of Loving You (Point blank, 1989)
05 – Comin' Home (Temple of Lies, 2018)
06 – Ready 4 Reaction (Fire Works, 1987)
07 – Give It A Try (Fire Works, 1987)
08 – Sleeping All Alone (Fire Works, 1987)
09 – Who's Foolin' Who (Point Blank, 1989)
10 – Why Is It Never Enough (Point Blank, 1989)
11 – Fantasy (Fire Works, 1987)
12 – When An Old Man Cries (Fistful of fire, 2020)
13 – Love Don't Lie (The Räuber, 2008)
14 – Lonely Nights (Byte the bullet, 2017)
15 – Under Blue Skies (Strike ten, 2001)
16 – You Make Me Feel (Don't touch the Light, 1986)
17 – No More (Don't touch the Light, 1986)
18 – The Devil Made Me Do It (Fistful of fire, 2020)
19 – Without You (Byte the bullet, 2017)
20 – Your Love Is Heaven To Me (Unpublished)
21 – Piece Of My Heart (Unpublished)
22 – Youngbloods (Unpublished)
23 – Our Hearts Don´t Feel The Same (Unpublished)
24 – Wolfmen (Unpublished) | |
