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Андрей Васильев · 3.5 / 5 · · 2024-10-13 13:59:46
MiskamNiretet · 3.5 / 5 · · 2024-08-22 04:11:18
EveryDisc · 3.5 / 5 · · 2018-03-02 11:33:53
The English hard-n-heavy group Demon, led by vocalist and full namesake of the guitarist of the group Slade (which at the dawn of the internet put Russian pirates into a stupor, and they combined these two absolutely unlike collectives on one mp3-disc with a red border) Dave Hill, gained popularity in the early 80s on the wave of the success of NWOBHM with the album "The Unexpected Guest", which entered the UK Top 50. After nine albums and the dominance of alternative in the early 90s, the group fell apart, but at the end of that same decade Dave remembered his purpose and returned Demon to life with the album "Spaced out monkey". The alternative scene was still popular, but lived not by grunge, but by nu-metal. Hill decided to go here too, of course, not forgetting his NWOBHM-roots. "Spaced out" - these are attempts to mix the prog-experiments of Demon of the mid-80s with modern metal (the old guys did not really plunge into pure youth nu). The global "Never saw it coming" with clear riffs - I am not sure that it is an ideal opener, but it sets the right mood; "Sound of the underground" returns to the 83rd, but the chorus is clearly from the early 00s; "Dreamtime" - melodic hard-n-heavy Demon, which they have been playing since the late 80s; "Spaced out monkey" - a groovy track in an attempt to be in trend, but the chorus clearly succeeded; "Where are you coming from" contains a profound, stirring chorus; "Let me out of here" - a good closing track for an epic album, which "Spaced out", unfortunately, is not with all the posturing. Song-by-song it is quite decent, as an album - dismal and ordinary. Did the comeback succeed? Well, judging by the fact that in the next 15 years, 3 more albums were released, Demon is alive. Is it worth sinking this disc, as most critics did? I don't think so. There are good things, and the fact that some attempts to sneak into the youth squad of modern metal look naive, is not a crime.
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