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Blue �yster Cult

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ZowieZiggy
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At times there are great come backs and at times they would have best been avoided. This album definitely belongs to the latter category.

This work is a sub-par heavy metal promenade: second-hand stuff really (it all starts with the average opener ''See You In Black''.) Was this all relevant after a ten-years break? I guess not! Even if some great beat and wild guitar can be experienced during ''Harvest Moon'' which is my fave by far from this weak album.

At best, some numbers are bearable even if popish like ''X-Ray Eyes'' but the overall mood is not really great (cf. the funky ''Damaged'') and ''Cold Gray Light Of Dawn'' sounds as an average Alice Cooper song, no more. It is shining thanks to some very good guitar work (just like ''Real World'').

Some friendly AOR characteristics for ''Live For Me'' aren't too bad, given the very average of the whole; but it is not what we could have expected from this sort of come back. It is not the last couple of tracks that will save this album, I'm afraid; even if the acoustic ''In Thee'' breaks the metal rock atmosphere.

This album is best avoided IMHHO. Don't even think to get some prog notes out of this (but this hasn't been the major trade mark of the band).

ZowieZiggy | 2/5 | 2009-5-30

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