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Märvel: Warhawks of war
13/04/11 || Habakuk
So guys, you sure are doing a good job at building a certain hype around you, pretty website, high class guest appearances, graphic novel imagery and bad ass band name, but why the fuck can’t I find the track list to your upcoming album anywhere? I even downloaded the press kit, for fuck’s sake. And all I got was this printable poster (???) – pardon me while I go find my A3 printer, where did I drop that again…
Anyway, your songs are good. I actually want to know the song titles. But alas… so, song 1, song 7 (research reveals the title is “Beaten path”), and a few others are especially cool. Yeah, see how well your press coverage gets with of that? Work on your public relations efforts, chumps. Just because Lord K has your promo copy lying around, that don’t mean poor Germ Habakuk has seen it! You can ease up on the guitar and songwriting practice in the meantime. I mean, you’ve got the Hellacopters homage down pretty well already.
Märvel, the addresses of the rant above, call their style “High Energy Rock”, and yeah, they better sound like the mighty mighty ‘copters then, because nothing rings the Hella-bell more than a description like that. Good thing that the guitar-driven, upbeat songs don’t fall behind this description. I guess a review with a normal music horizon would call “Warhawks of war” a tour de force, but hey, this is Global Domination. ”Litany” is a tour de force, not some random tight jeans Swedo rock album.
Still, this is good shit, just the make-or-break criterion is not whether the disco kicks are loud enough. Number one is the guitars, which completely live up to any expectations by constantly pumping out catchy leads and not messing up the good ol’ Powerchord work either. Number two is the vocals. They certainly have a lot of character, but haven’t complete won me over. Maybe they have too much character, and I’d rather have the focus on the guitars? Yeah, sometimes I get a little annoyed when the singer dude tries to run the melody all by his voice, see for example, well, song 5. He’s not that good, after all. Most of the time it works fine, though, so don’t get put off too much.
In other news: Bass and drums are played as well. No quarrels here,
they do what they are supposed to do and the good production puts them
in the right place.
So in the end, we get a mighty fine effort by a band that at least has
the potential to fill the spot left open by the Hellacopters, if they
produce more stuff like this – and actually put in on their albums! (It’s not on here??)
- Information
- Released: 2011
- Label: Killer Cobra
- Website: www.marvel.nu
- Band
- John Steen: vocals, guitars
- Ulrik Bostedt: bass
- Tony Samuelsson: drums
- Tracklist
- 01. song 1
- 02. song 2
- 03. song 3
- 04. song 4
- 05. song 5
- 06. song 6
- 07. Beaten path
- 08. song 8
- 09. song 9
- 10. song 10
- 11. song 11
- 12. song 12
