After ’Snakes & Ladders’ in 2017, the Swiss of melodic hard-rock band ‘Shakra’ continues their journey with a new album ‘Mad World’. Lovers of big sounds and saturated riffs with hellish tempos, you will be served with this last opus because powerful and energetic hits follow one after the other without real dead time.
And it starts a hundred an hour with 'Fireline' (video above) which sends us a rhythmic and powerful first track with a simple but super effective chorus, then, 'Too Much Is Not Enough' drives the point home with fierce riffs and if your whole body does not beat time, you are not made for this style of music. What follows continues in this riot of energy in catchy rhythm with 'A Roll of the Dice', 'Mad World' then 'When He Comes Around' calms the tempo but not the power for a title close to 'AC/DC' and it continues with an energetic 'Thousands Kings' and a rhythmical 'I Still Rock' which cannot leave indifferent. The end of the album is like the beginning, powerful compositions in which the guitars are unleashed and it is necessary to wait for the last title 'New Tomorrow' to have the ballad which closes the album on a calmer note.
In summary, 'Shakra' continues to do 'Shakra' and, even if they don't revolutionize the genre, they offer us again an album full of energy and simple but still very effective compositions which should undoubtedly delight their fans but also an audience who likes a direct and unadorned melodic hard-rock... | |
