MISTER KITE

Box of fear relased two years later in 2004 at same Lion Music is a little diffrent, musicaly speaking, now the music is much more towards moder hard rock, again not far from Motley Crue and not a single moments remind me that this is a progressive metal band. If the previous album had some good moments who alternates with some very good ones, here the good ones alternates with boring and totaly unintristing on every pieces. The music is again energic, with uptempo moments, but the ideas overall are simply a disaster, a forgetable release IMO. Every piece is boring with modern metal touch, a thing that I don't like, for ex Evil Bob, absolut a total disaster. This album sounds if is made for teenagers, who wants almost simple music with some metal arrangements here and there. I want more complicated music, and this album definetly won't give such moments, weaker the first one and almost bad in places. 2-2.5 stars, even for some listners might be intrsting, to me is a collectors item, not band but falls to attract me in every way.

Mister Kite is a total unknown band from Sweden who combine in places progressive metal with hard rock and melodic power metal. They release so far two albums, this is the first one named All the time, issued at Lion Music in 2002. At first listning I was struck about the musiciaship, how easy these guys plays, but also the music is very much towards hard rock not far from , american bands from late'80's. It's obvious, because in the linear nots of the CD the musicians tanks for inspiration amomg others to Peter Gabriel and Motley Crue ( from where they took a lot), this album is almost similar in every pieces with the americans. So, the music is well composed, very uptempo with lots of great riifs, energic druming and excellent vocal parts, Alf Wemmenling has a powerfull voice just perfect for this music. The main problem is that this album is to linear, to much the same on every piece, was needed much more diverse arrangements. The rythmyc section is awesome, from the first piece All In Time - Mister Kite kick major ass, heavy riffs but with an american sound overall, as I said not far from Motley Crue in the end. The keybords are sporadic, only on The Diary Of A Stranger - divided in 3 parts has a more important role and even some solo. So, a good album, the best from the two released by the band, the next one is weaker and falls in another category. 3 stars, in some mparts more like 3.5, decent to great in places, but not really something very strong or close to something essential, still enjoyble. For fans who like T.O.C, and bands with more groove in the music with a moder touch