Список групп Heavy Metal The Steve Grimmett Band Personal Crisis

Steve Grimmett isn’t born yesterday: Starting at the beginning of the 80s, he was already screamed within Grin Reaper, before joining the band Lionsheart and lastly before making a brief appearance within Onslaught. Tired of all of these turn-over, he decided to take care of his destiny by himself and he continued his career under his own name. To that purpose, he surrounded himself with three guys: the guitarist Ian Nash (Lionsheart), the bassist Ritcky Walker and the drummer Pete Newdeck (Paul Di Anno, Eden’s Curse).



For those of you who followed even a little Steve Grimmett’s carrier, “Personal Crisis” puts a new step in the singer’s professional life. The style used here is indeed more laboured, more mature and more melodic. The age of basic riffs (but diabolically efficient) of ‘Rock you to hell’ or ‘See you in hell’ are definitely over. It let place to much more structured, richer and more modern compositions. “Personal Crisis” positions itself in a melodic heavy metal style, associating sharp riffs and unstoppable melodies. The compositions are based on laboured structures where breaks and solos follow one another perfectly, a little like in Eden’s Curse in which Pete Newdeck officiates as hard bitter. Furthermore, other common point with that previously cited band, the production is done in both cases by Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69), helped by Pete Newdeck. But who knows, maybe it’s only my imagination abusing me, influenced by what are only coincidences. In all cases, the power is there and most of the titles are fast, showing massive and heavy rhythmic. I must nevertheless recognize that, from time to time, the interpreted themes remind me slightly of Vanden Plas (“Freedom”), of BMR (“Afterglow”) and of Queensrÿche (“Wrath of ripper”). But the result is so efficient that you’ll quickly forgive these similarities. Some songs have a nice little perfume of prog (‘Lonely) and the duo ‘Enemy’ where Steve is accompanied by a female singer, who I have unfortunately not recognized, is a pure killing. If “Personal Crisis” remains very coherent by his heavy aspect, it is nevertheless full of variations, which is clearly a positive and pleasant thing for listeners.
If you had loved former Steve’s voice, you won’t be disappointed with this album. The singer has been able to maintain all his skills: his power and his sound chest grow richer thanks to better developed melodies but his sad habit to be slightly too much high-pitched remains. I have also to deliver a special distinction to the three other musicians who play like hell. Guitar parts are gigantic and the influence of Malmsteen is more than obvious on a track like ‘Fallen’. The association bass/drums is also huge. It brings both a terrific support and an unquestionable strength to each composition.
The only possible regret of this album would be its lack of originality due to passages that seem to have been heard hundreds of time. But everything is so well executed and so well presented that listening to it remains a real pleasure.


Productions stamped Dennis Ward are good by definition. This one won’t make any exception. It’s once more perfect.



If you’re like me an unconditional fan of singers ‘singing hard, not afraid to scream while not falling on the dark side of the force’, go without fear, Steve Grimmett is your man and “Personal Crisis” is a good opus to discover or rediscover the ex-Grim Reaper. As usually said, if this album hasn’t invented powder, it has at least the credit to know how to explode it!



Translated by heavyboy