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Pretty Maids - Wake Up To The Real World

 

	RELEASED: November 10, 2006 PRODUCER:? LABEL:Frontiers BAND: Ronnie Atkins - vocals Ken Hammer - guitars Kenn Jackson - bass Michael Fast - drums
+ Guitars, Production Songs - Sounds dated at times, Nothing spectacular here	TRACKS: 1.Wake Up To The Real World 2. All In The Name of Love 3. I Am The End 4. As Guilty As You 5.Why Die For A Lie 6. Such A Rush 7. Where True Beauty Lies 8. Brave Young New Breed 9. Terminal Violence 10. Perfect Strangers 11. Another Shot Of You Love

 

OVERVIEW

Another could’ve-been 80’s band comes to fruition in the second coming of the Pretty Maids. Making only small waves originally, they’ve tightened up their sound and released some decent records of late. There are a slew of new hard rock albums like this, and it’s well welcome.

 

SONGS

Things start off great with As Guilty As You Are, nice acoustic arrangements and lyrics, complete with some nice lead work, which is always welcome these days. Wake Up In The Real World takes you back a little, complete with a driving riff, very reminiscent of RATT. It fairs well updated though. Nice. Keyboards make an entrance on Such A Rush, but makes way to a crunchy guitar later on. This is a great melodic track. Power ballad Another Shot OF Your Love heralds in a moody, atmospheric entrance and gives way to a multi-harmonized chorus. There’s a real urgency in I Am The End, which is mean and gritty, though with a few out-of-place synth effects. Brave Young Breed introducers it self as a thumping rocker, and although it slows down at points, it’s a hard rocking affair. Not bad at all, some nice metal licks thrown in. Another ballad steps in with Where True Beauty Lies, and seems a little corny at times, but has some great moments. Perfect Strangers is slow and strange, seemingly dated at times, and modern at others. All In The Name of love sounds like an old school Iron Maiden rip-off to me, and it’s hard to separate it from that. Why Die For A Lie is another thumping rocker, mixing in some moody synths for more of a European sound. Things finish up with Terminal Violence, another guitar-nasty track, with a great chorus, nice end.

 

 

CONCLUSION

The strange things about this record, is it slowly changes from a modern melodic affair into an 80’s British metal flavoured rocker. I don’t know the full story behind the album, but perhaps there were some old demo songs thrown on the end to make up numbers. Either way, this is a pretty solid disc. There’s not too many stand out tracks, however there isn’t really a bad song in the lot either. Plenty of great, chunky riffs and solos make a welcome release in this day and age. A few more hooks and this could’ve been a surprise masterpiece. For now, it’s just a great rocking album.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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