Liste des groupes Heavy Metal Suckceed Sonication 24-7

"Sonication 24/7" is the second album to be released by Austrian Metal Rockers Suckceed and it’s again a self-produced long player, a fact which really surprised me considering the high level of the band. In 2008 these guys – a quintet since Michl W. joined them on the second guitar – won the Austrian Metal Battle (although their sound can never be called "pure" Metal) and went subsequently to Wacken to play a gig on the W.E.T-Stage! Strange that they didn' get a contract after that. But the quality of the recording didn’t suffer under the lack of backing by a label and big money as the first listening makes abundantly clear. The intro “24.7 FM” sounds like a radio searching for the right station and program which finally homes in on “Save my Soul”, an easy rocking song. The cool and grooving "Devils Pay" and the light and playful "This Flaming Heart" are my favorites. Together those three songs give a good first impression of the band. A bit harder and faster are "Hiding Place" with its excellent riffs and the fine bass intro by Earp H., "In Heaven I can't fight" with an IRON MAIDEN-like lead line and the title track "Sonication 24/7" with MOTÖRHEAD riffs and a hymn-like refrain. "Set the World on Fire" is the only ballad on this CD but what a fine piece of art! Melancholy yet powerful it proves once again that Suckceed are capable of composing great emotional songs without the least touch of kitsch to mar the pleasure of their audience. The last track is a cover version of Trent Reznor’s “Hurt”; groovy and emotional it shows the true range of Franky B.’s voice. Once again Suckceed have given us a great work. Although not every song is a big hit or can convince on first listening, the album as a whole presents a professional, well-thought-out, to-the-point piece of Hard Rock art. Fine solos and chords by two guitarists who fit together perfectly, a great voice, a powerful rhythm section – Suckceed is a name to be remembered, a band to be supported !