BALLERMANN

Grobschnitt's second album is sabotaged - regularly - by shoddy vocals, often delivered in a ham-fisted "comedy" style which is devoid of all comedy. Even worse, the band lead off the album with its most garish and irritating novelty track, the asinine Sahara, and the "comedy" doesn't really let up that much for half the album. The epic Solar Music may be of interest to some, and is probably the best part of the album, though it is affected by the occasionally dodgy vocals and fans of the band generally hold the live version on Solar Music Live to be greatly superior to this one anyway. Had Grobschnitt just stopped with the silly voices and took the record seriously this might be a decent space rock number, but as it is it's deeply, deeply flawed.