BBI

BBI stands for Bussonnet, Buire and Imperato, the names of the trio who make up this band. Bussonnet i'm sure is the most well known for his work with MAGMA and ONE SHOT in particular. Buire was the drummer for Vander's solo project called OFFERING, while Imperato was the lead guitarist for XAAL. The music is pretty heavy as you can imagine and in my opinion this isn't as good as the bands I mentioned above mainly because of the lack of keyboards and the style of music here. Having said that, this is a blast. Oh and Udi Koomran mastered this album, and this must be the fourth album i've reviewed recently that Udi worked his magic on. The guy is amazing.

"DVDX" has such a good intro, I love the bass. It settles in quickly with guitar playing over top. These contrasts continue. Some ground shaking bass 2 minutes in. The guitar to follow is crying out. The bass and drums are relentless. "Riff Fantom" opens with the guitar and bass really standing out then it settles. The bass is very growly especially 4 1/2 minutes in. The music gets pretty intense at times. It settles before 7 minutes then it slowly builds. This is great !

"Charlie" is lighter sounding Jazz Rock. "Les Indiens" is down right nasty early on. It does settles as the guitar grinds away. It's building. The guitar is ripping it up before 8 1/2 minutes. "Trente-Trois" has some funky bass as the guitar solos over top and the drums pound. "La Main Du Diable" is uptempo and almost catchy (haha).The guitar tone is excellent here. It settles before 2 1/2 minutes. Listen to the bass ! The guitar is lighting it up after 4 minutes.The tempo picks up before 5 1/2 minutes.

A couple of these tracks ended up on ONE SHOT's debut, reworked somewhat of course. Very worthy of 4 stars.