REBELLION - A TRAGEDY IN STEEL: SHAKESPEARE´S MACBETH (Drakkar Recs., 2002)
Produced by Uwe Lulis and Tomi Göttlich.
Recorded at Black Solaris Studios.
Artwork by James Woodward.
Tracks: 1- Introduction, 2- Disdaining Fortune, 3- The Prophecy, 4- Husband in Heaven, 5- The Dead Arise, 6- Evil Speaks, 7- Letters of Blood, 8- Revenge, 9- Claws of Madness, 10- Demons Rising, 11- Die With Harness on Your Back
This is a German metal band with a lot of eighties influences (power/heavy metal and some thrash metal too ) in their music. The first thing that strikes you is the good sound that this release have (I liked specially the drums that are killer.....killer double bass). Another thing that I liked is that they don´t have the kind of riffs that bands like Helloween or Rhapsody and their million clones have. In fact Rebellion prefers to use more modern riffs and a lot of interesting clean guitar arpeggios (in the vein of more proggressive bands like Dream Theater). Also it is really good tat the singer does not abuse of the high pitched screams. The story of this CD spins around Shakespeare´s Macbeth and this tragedy is really well recreated. But the main thing here is the music and Rebellion shows us how you can still do metal without copying the main bands of the style. Pure metal !!
Favorite tracks: "Revenge"; "Claws of Madness" and "Demons Rising".
Contact: www.drakkar.de
