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Mad Max - White Sands

 

	RELEASED: April 3, 2007 PRODUCER:Michael Voss LABEL: AOR Heaven BAND: Michael Voss Jürgen Breforth Axel Kruse Roland Bergmann
+ Production, Riffs, Hooks, SOme great songs - Sometimes misses the mark	TRACKS: 1.Family Of Rock 2.Little Princess 3.Heaven Is ... 4.Someone Like You 5.Lluvia 6.We Fight In White 7.Change It 8.Glorious Night 9.Too Wrong 10.War

OVERVIEW

2nd album in only a year, and 3rd release (E.P) in the same time shows these German rockers are hard at work.  Possibly carriers of the Christian hard rock flame from Stryper.

SONGS

I don’t know much about Mad Max, but the opening riff makes me want to find out more. Great sound and production all the way here. Family Of Rock is riff ready and rocking, great song. Next is Little Princess, with its catchy, cutting riff and chunky rhythms is one of the best songs I've heard this year. It reminds me a little of Paul Laine Danger Danger, this one grows on you because its just a great rock. Heaven Is leans into ballad territory and does so fairly well, this sounds somewhat like Enuff Z Nuff. Then we go all the way to the other end of the spectrum with the almost Black Label-like intro of Someone Like You. This changes quickly and changes into a fantastic 80’s style sleaze rocker and it’s where the Michael Sweet/Stryper influence becomes very apparent. Lluvia is a fine instrumental that will be familiar to most. We Fight In White even sounds like the title of a Stryper song, and the vocals again are very reminiscent of such. This is a far harder driving song and will get the accelerator to the floor! Great song.  Change It is another great catchy rock number, very solid with some nice guitar licks. Glorious Night slowly emerges and builds into one of the best on this album. Again, it sounds like a less cheesy version of 80’s Stryper. But with an updated production and some great sounds, this is an absolute gem. Too Wrong keeps up the great quality (I swear this sounds like To Hell With The Devil!). Final song War is a little hit and miss, sometimes its sensational and sometimes its less so. Decent tune though.

CONCLUSION

While its far from perfect, it is definitely a great CD and some people will know doubt hold it dear. I couldn’t help but compare this to Stryper once I realised how much Michael Voss sounds like Michael Sweet. This is not neccesari;y a bad thing and old-school Stryper fans will be rubbing their hands together. The production is almost faultless and the playing exceptional. More numbers like Little Princess and Glorious Night would have made this a killer album, as it stands, I’d say its solid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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