Independent review

If someone decided to listen to the new solo album of Gus G, remembering his merits in Firewind and at old man Ozzy, and also about the title of the most famous metalhead of Greece (Constantinos Karamitroudis – the real name of Gus), then here is a blitz-anti-advice for you. I will say right away that only one track can be run a couple of times – Chances. Everything else is emptiness. There are three pillars on which the land of Fearless does not hold. 1. To hell with taking Dennis Ward as a producer – the standard Frontiers sound is familiar, but to agree to his vocals when he offers his services – this is too much. He does NOT know how to sing. He knows how to play bass. 2. First one needs to compose (possibly also to call outside authors, Ward is clearly insufficient), and then record. And if one is trying to make it on instrumentals, it is worth inventing them, and not just sawing. And here the point... 3. Gus is not a brilliant guitarist, he is just not a bad metal-sawer for a band. In sum, we have a most dreary metal album with a bunch of monotonous secondary guitar licks. And with Ozzy, in Firewind, and even in DreamEvil Gus held his own and could. Can he still? I wish he would have called guests at least, like on the previous solo album. Everything is more fun.

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