Voodoo Circle — Francesco Jovino
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AllMusic · 3.0 / 5 · · 2026-07-26 08:07:44
MiskamNiretet · 4.0 / 5 · · 2024-08-01 22:06:31
EveryDisc · 4.0 / 5 · · 2018-02-14 06:27:33
I don't like it when they take and ride the hackneyed, but I adore it when they do as the founding fathers bequeathed - create albums in the style of the greats at almost the same level of inspiration and skill. The project of Alex Beyrodt and Mat Sinner are masters in this business. Yes, on the previous album Whiskey fingers they gave a weakness, approaching exactly the option when they simply ride an old rut. But I believed that this was a temporary decline and I was right. On the fifth album, the leaders of the collective refused to directly copy David Coverdale with another David - Readman and replaced him with Herbie Langhans. The new vocalist is a mixture of Mark Tornillo from Accept and Biff Byford from Saxon, although, of course, Coverdale's intonations are not forgotten. After all, the Voodoo Circle program is based on the style of Whitesnake 80s. However, without covers, with modern production and excellent professionalism of the participants. And most importantly, what was not on the previous disc - hits (without which such hair-blues-hard is unthinkable) returned, as if there had been no creative crisis. Only now we received also a small portion of heavy metal in this cocktail. Running away from love possesses precisely the typical melody of Whitesnake with a weighted arrangement. Further, notes of Gotthard flash through in the band. Walk on the line - classic hard rock of the 80s without minuses; You promised me heaven - we recall the Coverdale / Page project; Just take my heart - again we return to the best times of WS; Where is the world we love - a ballad full of artificial smoke; Chase me away - a reference to Guns'N'Roses; Unknown stranger - an excellent fighter; Dreamchaser would have suited both the solo discs of the same David and the Whitesnake albums, of course; Time for the innocent is melodic, and a bonus is a typical modern melodic hard There's more to see - not bad and one can believe that the collective's participants are younger somewhere deep in their souls than you think. I consider the replacement of the vocalist a successful move in the sense of refusing direct vocal copying, and the musical component should be just like this.
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