With 'Bonfire', the same story has been repeated quite frequently for several years, because, after two good albums, 'Byte The Bullet' in 2017 and 'Temple of Lies' in 2018, it's the turn of 'Fistful of Fire' to see the light of day and when I reread my chronicle of 'Temple of Lies', I said to myself that I could make a copy and paste, just changing the name of the compositions. Indeed, apart from a slight change of line up with 'André Hilgers' which replaces 'Tim Breideband' on the drums, we take the same and start again with an equivalent result : Indeed, apart from a slight change of line up with 'André Hilgers' which replaces 'Tim Breideband' on the drums, we take the same artists and we start again with an equivalent result : good melodic hard-rock with titles that remain anchored in your head and, after the instrumental introduction 'The Joker' which prepares the ground, it begins with a catchy 'Gotta Get Away' with a refrain which will certainly be sung in choir in concert, then, what is follows shows compositions all equally powerful and melodic as the others and apart from the magnificent ballad 'When an Old Man Cries' which is included in an acoustic version at the end of the album and the 2 mid-tempos 'Warrior' and 'Fistful of Fire' a little less energetic and allowing well-deserved breaks, everything is done to offer us over-vitaminized compositions. We can also note the two double titles 'Breaking Out' with its instrumental introduction ‘Fire Etude’ in which ‘Frank Pane’ takes himself for a short time for ‘Eddie Van Halen’ and ‘The Surge’ which serves as a progressive ramp-up to explode in an un unbridled 'Gloryland'.
In summary, the Germans of 'Bonfire' are still releasing (but we are used to it now) an album filled with good energy that should appeal to all those who love a powerful and melodic hard rock always as effective... | |
