Tracklist
| 1. The Only One |
| 2. Pale Rider |
| 3. Face of an Angel |
| 4. Pleasure and Pain |
| 5. For Your Soul |
| 6. Walk the Line |
| 7. Thorn in My Side |
| 8. Crawling |
| 9. Until I See the Sun |
| Bonustrack |
| 10. Wheels of the World |
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Lars Chriss and Sampo Axelsson are respectively guitarist and bass/keyboard player of the Sweden band Lion’s Share. Having worked together for years, they developed musical ideas they couldn’t incorporate to their band’s music. Instead of forgetting them, Sampo suggested to Lars to immortalize these ideas on an album which would be a side-project to Lion’s Share. That’s how Road to Ruin is born!
Musically speaking, it’s true that the two bands have very different styles. Lion’s Share is more heavy and clean while Road to Ruin develops an hard rock style influenced a lot by the seventies and the beginning of the eighties and its atmosphere reminds you of bands such as Raimbow, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. And this style is far from being unpleasant to me! No need to wait any longer to share my general feeling: this album is full of superb songs. Most of the tracks sound old-school but their very modern production, sound and arrangements give them a unique charm. All the basic ingredients of hits are gathered: the rhythmic is mostly made of limpid riffs and not of raw pitches of power nor of too many staccato; the Hammond organ, supporting the whole compo like in Rainbow or Deep Purple, even competes with the guitars by doing a few soli (‘Walk the line’, ‘Until I see the sun’) ; the melodies are perfect and the reverb effects on the voice add a psychedelic atmosphere which is completely in phase with the overall ambience (‘Until I see the sun’).
The album contains several punchy songs such as ‘The only one’ a track which starts with a retro-like keyboard (but which remains nevertheless a very modern song), such as ‘Pleasure and pain’ with its Led Zep-like riff or such as the hurricane ‘Walk the line’ and its superb duel keyboard/guitar (absolutely perfect). To calm us down a little while still sounding like we are in the good old times, the mid-tempo are essential: ‘Pale ride’ is a perfect example both with its rhythmic and its providential break; the superb intro of ‘Face of an angle’ let you know it will be a Dantesque song and one keeps wondering if it’s not David Coverdale who is singing on ‘Crawling’! Two ballads are also included: the first one ‘For your soul’ being very, and even too much, classical ; the second one ‘Thorn on my side’, where the aura of a Tony Iommy is palpable, is excellent.
Aucun morceau autre que « Until I see the sun » n'aurait pût clôturer cette brèche temporelle avec autant de panache.
No other song than ‘Until I see the sun’ could have ended this temporal breach with such a panache.
Even if Matti Alfonzetti doesn’t have yet the imposing bearing of someone like Coverdale, Turner or Gillian, one must recognize that he is really good, even if a few songs would have welcomed a little more strength. For the concerts, a solution will have to be found because for sure Sampo Axelsson won’t be able to play both the bass and the keyboards ! Lars Chriss couldn’t refrain himself from playing very contemporary solos for songs supposed to sound retro. But the suprise provided by this temporal mix adds charm and modernity to the overall sound. As far as drums are concerned, Thomas Broman has found the right tempo, what is not a real surprise as this gentleman has already worked with so many masterminds evolving in that musical style (Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner, John Norum etc …)
Road to Ruin signs here an excellent first album. The band succeeds in bringing back the ambience of the 70s and 80s and adding to it the flavour of the 21st century. It offers us a very nice album which will please all the fans of classical hard.
Let’s hope that this project is only at its beginning and that Lion’s Share will let enough free time to Sampo and Lars to create a sequel album.
Translated by heavyboy
Musically speaking, it’s true that the two bands have very different styles. Lion’s Share is more heavy and clean while Road to Ruin develops an hard rock style influenced a lot by the seventies and the beginning of the eighties and its atmosphere reminds you of bands such as Raimbow, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. And this style is far from being unpleasant to me! No need to wait any longer to share my general feeling: this album is full of superb songs. Most of the tracks sound old-school but their very modern production, sound and arrangements give them a unique charm. All the basic ingredients of hits are gathered: the rhythmic is mostly made of limpid riffs and not of raw pitches of power nor of too many staccato; the Hammond organ, supporting the whole compo like in Rainbow or Deep Purple, even competes with the guitars by doing a few soli (‘Walk the line’, ‘Until I see the sun’) ; the melodies are perfect and the reverb effects on the voice add a psychedelic atmosphere which is completely in phase with the overall ambience (‘Until I see the sun’).
The album contains several punchy songs such as ‘The only one’ a track which starts with a retro-like keyboard (but which remains nevertheless a very modern song), such as ‘Pleasure and pain’ with its Led Zep-like riff or such as the hurricane ‘Walk the line’ and its superb duel keyboard/guitar (absolutely perfect). To calm us down a little while still sounding like we are in the good old times, the mid-tempo are essential: ‘Pale ride’ is a perfect example both with its rhythmic and its providential break; the superb intro of ‘Face of an angle’ let you know it will be a Dantesque song and one keeps wondering if it’s not David Coverdale who is singing on ‘Crawling’! Two ballads are also included: the first one ‘For your soul’ being very, and even too much, classical ; the second one ‘Thorn on my side’, where the aura of a Tony Iommy is palpable, is excellent.
Aucun morceau autre que « Until I see the sun » n'aurait pût clôturer cette brèche temporelle avec autant de panache.
No other song than ‘Until I see the sun’ could have ended this temporal breach with such a panache.
Even if Matti Alfonzetti doesn’t have yet the imposing bearing of someone like Coverdale, Turner or Gillian, one must recognize that he is really good, even if a few songs would have welcomed a little more strength. For the concerts, a solution will have to be found because for sure Sampo Axelsson won’t be able to play both the bass and the keyboards ! Lars Chriss couldn’t refrain himself from playing very contemporary solos for songs supposed to sound retro. But the suprise provided by this temporal mix adds charm and modernity to the overall sound. As far as drums are concerned, Thomas Broman has found the right tempo, what is not a real surprise as this gentleman has already worked with so many masterminds evolving in that musical style (Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner, John Norum etc …)
Road to Ruin signs here an excellent first album. The band succeeds in bringing back the ambience of the 70s and 80s and adding to it the flavour of the 21st century. It offers us a very nice album which will please all the fans of classical hard.
Let’s hope that this project is only at its beginning and that Lion’s Share will let enough free time to Sampo and Lars to create a sequel album.
Translated by heavyboy
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