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| Shakra - Everest |
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| Written by Natalie Perez | ||
| Wednesday, 11 March 2009 | ||
 Title: Everest Artist: Shakra Genre: Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Release Date: 17th April 2009 Label: AFM Records Album Review With the releases of their first attempts ‘Shakra’ (1998) and ‘Moving Force’ (1999) and touring with GREAT WHITE and URIAH HEEP the early span of SHAKRA was doing quite well. But their breakthrough period didn't invade until ‘Power Ride’ (2001) which brought a tragedy to lead singer Peter Wiedmer who was forced to leave because of illness, who was soon replaced with Mark Fox who immediately filled his shoes and put his name in the invisible space. From then on SHAKRA has never been the same but become much better with their latest instalment ‘Everest’, an easy to handle rock and roll ride with a dash of heavy metal mix-ups in between. The tempo brought on showcases the music's creativeness the band can present especially on such tracks as ‘Love & Pain’, ‘Right between the Eyes’ and ‘Insanity’, each of which shows their own style and uniqueness to the music. The guitars for instance play a non-stop riff on ‘Love & Pain’, which easily breaks away with a solo that fades off into a drumming tactic that blends in with the vocal sides of Mark's capturing talents and skills. When it comes to ‘Right between the Eyes’, you get socked right in between the eyes with the roaring riffing action of the guitars which goes hand in hand with the drumming beats and smoothing vocals as the song crafts together building up slowly as each note is built little by little; giving this tone that real raw but heavy rock and roll side and feel. ‘Insanity’ starts off rather slowly then goes into a fast racing tempo beat that speeds up as the song progresses the guitars going into a non-stop soloing riff action as the vocals come in soon after breaking away letting the drums take over in their own creative solo going right back into the guitar action. SHAKRA's ‘Everest’ is a crafted piece of work and shall please the rock and roller buried deep inside of you. Tracklist 01. Ashes to Ashes 02. Love & Pain 03. Let Me Lie My Life to You 04. The Illusion of Reality 05. Why 06. The Journey 07. Regressive Evolution 08. Anybody Out There 09. Right between the Eyes 10. Dirty Money 11. Insanity 12. Hopeless Line-Up Roger Tanner - drums Thom Blunier - guitar Thomas Muster - guitar Mark Fox - vocals Dominik Pfister – bass
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