JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR - "STAND YOUR GROUND" (2017)

JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR - "STAND YOUR GROUND"

(Running time: 75:42  minutes; 12 songs)

("High Roller Records"; 2017; CD):

Can anyone please tell me why this sort of "Veteran-Formation" was to this year absolutely unknown to me? Ah, but okay, first things first, so yes, so hey guys, your dear Manslaughter Andy is back at work again and so he's delivering you here and now his newest post and so his newest record review and of course... yes... I definitely should stop talking about me, myself, and I in the third person, that's not a very 'healthy sign' after all... or so they say. Jack Starr, a former VIRGIN STEELE member, raised back in the 1980's his own band named JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR and released a bunch of albums under this banner back then before more or less calling it a day, for all what I (think to) know, and then in the early (?) 2000's reuniting and reforming JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR with a new 'crew' and now in 2017 Jack Starr respectively JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR released with "STAND YOUR GROUND" a brand new album via the very sympathic "HIGH ROLLER RECORDS" label, yes, and so now here we are, undeniable, and so now let's go: The artwork of "STAND YOUR GROUND" totally caught and conquered me and I instantly turned into sort of a curious teenager (- if you get what I'm saying) who nothing else wanted more than finally and desperately listen to this beauty of an album, yes, and so I did and I instantly took it with me. This is absolute fantastic traditional (but yet very fresh and 'amazingly' alive-lively and in no way any lame and stale retro crap) and really hymnal as well as powerful and also really harsh shredding Heavy Metal (or some may like to call it Power Metal) with a strong U.S. American identity and so call it U.S. Metal or (U.S.) American Heavy Metal and it also showcases pretty often a strong epic character and so some may even would call it Epic Metal for some well justified reasons... but at the end of the day I don't really care about what 'trademark-label' may would please you the most and so for me this is nothing else but one hell of an incredible strong through and through real Heavy Metal album, hell yeahr, maybe epic Heavy Metal as well, anyhow, point and fact. Wrapped up into first class to absoultely highest class songwriting that offers a wide variety of different play- and soul- as well as thoughtful song arrangements, rousing rhythmic structures, strong and nicely varying pace compositions, and a great diversity of rich emotions, different moods, and a colorful palette of 'tonings'n'colorations' that turn the songs into grapping and exciting events here we get pure platinum real Heavy Metal with a very strong and impressive own identity and delivered by high skilled musicians and expect to get it all from rocking Power Metal stompers over catchy fists-in-the-air Heavy Metal hymns to hard shredding fast paced through'n'through heavy Headbangers over epic Monsters of Metal tracks to powerful Heavy Metal ballads, yes, JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR deliver with "STAND YOUR GROUND" for sure the real deal and the complete package. Expect one hell of a strong, charismatic, and absoultely great clean and powerful yet very melodic and with a lot of honest emotions shining lead singing voice that marks the song heavily for all the right reasons; expect a brilliant guitar work that offers a fantastic rhythmic work, shines with forceful riffing, and conquers completly with its large leads and melody work as well as really, really strong solos, that also delivers shredding(s) of the first class, yes, and that's for sure the biggest trademark and the strongest marking element of the songs and the music of JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR (at least here on "STAND YOUR GROUND"); and then expect it all to be massively and in an imressive way being backed up and cultivated and enriched with and/or by a sheer full force tight and precise and yet nicely varying and anyhow very, very forceful rhythm section that gives the songs the needed powerful punch to become real Heavy Metal asskickers of the highest grade. Fantastic, strong and thought-provoking lyrics, a powerful and yet dirty and old schoolish production sound, and an absolutely amazing artwork finally round one of the if not the strongest (traditional) Heavy Metal albums of 2017 and also in (and probably also for) years finally up. My personal favorites are "THE SECRETS WE HIDE", "THE ENEMY", "STAND YOUR GROUND", "HERO" (pretty much the über-hit of the whole album), "WORLDS APART", "ESCAPE FROM THE NIGHT", "STRONGER THAN STEEL", and "FALSE GODS", yes, so maybe start with the discovery of JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR's "STAND YOUR GROUND" maybe wit this larger than life gems first but don't make the mistake to think that the other (anyhow only few) not mentioned songs would be anyway sort of weak songs because hell no they are also very strong stuff, period. If you are anyhow into Heavy Metal then you simply need to call JACK STARR's BURNING STARR's "STAND YOUR GROUND" your damn bloody own, period. Highly to 'highliest' recommended, yes, and so enough of the talking now just go out and get it as soon as possible if you still really shouldn't have it. Heavy Metal is the law!!!
(10 of 10 points)
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JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR - "HERO" (2017, "STAND YOUR GROUND")