Guitar Force
Different Universe

Is this a new Star Wars idea? “The guitar force is with you young Stringwalker” says Darth Vater in his dark voice when they attempt a guitar solo duel on their light guitars. That duel happens on a planet with flying horses where the evil empire have a shield generator to protect their new studio star capable of delivering high pitched noises that can destroy planets. Only a sextet of Polish musicians can come up with such an idea or was it just me? This is by the way the first international release by this female fronted Polish heavy metal band – and I can assure you that it is nowhere near as interesting as the Stringwalker Guitar Wars idea that came into my head just now.

With a name like that you suspect that they would have the guitar force with them, with soaring guitars of a quality never heard before – that doesn’t happen. They play fairly typical heavy metal with a fairly bland production and some violins for added atmosphere. The female vocalist is fairly okay but her vocals hardly gives this album a new and exciting dimension and sometimes I feel like some Jedi has fooled me by waving a hand saying “this isn’t the album you’re listening to” as it is a very forgetful offering without any kind of magical power. I found that particularly strange at first as it has a track called Magical Power, but they are just lying, just like they do about the guitar force.

I think that this is a bland album that you just gloss over dreaming about some kind of epic movie with light-guitars, spaceships and other funny stuff where the music is composed by someone who knows what he is doing (perhaps Kimi Räikkönen) and not by some blokes who clearly doesn’t. I am sure that this would have sounded much better with a good production rather than this flat sounding album. Sure it has some benefits and some interesting stuff, like most albums do, but in the end it is forgotten immediately after the final tone ends, and doesn’t that final song start by sounding suspiciously much like an old Rainbow song from 1975?

It is an album that doesn’t really take off, that feels held back by amateurish production and bland songs. They should have gone more for the force and those kinds of things, the guitars feel way to anonymous to have given name to this band. Yeah, they have a lot of work to do if they want to become relevant, there are too many better choices out there to allow this album to do anything but gather dust in the record sellers’ shelves.

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