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| World War Three--a review Sani Anttila |
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Editor's note: For those of you who have been around long enough to remember Sani, he was one CRAZY Scandinavian metal rocker that was really into Dio and open to other things Dio related. The review is his, the photos are courtesy of TRACYG.COM and the layout and encoding is my doing. So here you have it, ENJOY! KEN |
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| Terve Dio fans! Do you guys remember the time when Jimmy Bain, Vinny Appice, Tracy Grijalva and Mandy Lion worked together? Well it was around 89' or 90' when they decided to make some traditional heavy metal music, but as it turned out their record company (Hollywood Records) wasn't that interested of promoting it. It's almost impossible to actually find ww3 album from anywhere... but if you have any luck at all, you might bump into it sometimes. For months I have listened it from a bad cassette copy and I didn't even have all the songs in it.
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| 1. Time For Terror
starts with *Eddie Van Halen* style of guitar torture intro, which I did not like that much...this kind of stuff has become some sort of a cliché since the first Van Halen album. The Main riff is pretty powerful, which I think could be the main theme for the Beavis And Butthead show... [ I have this vision of B&B moshing with their forefinger and index finger high...uh, you know what those two weirdoes are alike]
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| 2. Love You To Death
could be a song made for Alice Cooper[1986-92 era], because it
really reminds me of stuff like Poison and Prince Of Darkness. I
really love this song to death. I have always loved Alice Cooper, so
this is definitely one of my favorite tracks from ww3. Vinny and
Jimmy are really smoking with this tune and it really shows in
Tracy's guitar work, which is better than most of the album's guitar
parts . The Main riff is a classic which could easily break some
bones in my body. Mandy sings this song like some sad and lovesick
werewolf. If you guys have ever seen the movie "Howling" you know
what I mean. I'm really impressed with Tracy's guitar work in this
tune.
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| 3.Call Me Devil is not a
bad rock tune in musically, but the lyrics...ah yes the lyrics...oh dear! They are really bad, if ya know what I mean. This could be one of those tunes that can be heard from the eighties Kiss and Ac/Dc albums.
After this track is over, the whole album is changing towards
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| 4.Children Of The
Revolution is actually an old T-Rex song made by Marc Bolan. The Song starts with children choir and then our animal singer Mandy is trying to ruin the heavenly mood by his usual raspy voice. my points: 6 |
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| 5.Go Down is a typical
hard rock track that doesn't give the listeners anything new that hasn't heard before. This is exactly what Kiss was doing in the middle eighties. Here are some lyrics: |
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| 6. Love at First Bite is
just...well it's...uh... ya know it's a song like Spinal tap would play. What can I say really, but enough is enough. I didn't like this
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| 7. The Harder They Come
is little better than the two previous tracks, but the lyrics are again just total bunch of Beavis&Butthead soft porn stuff... Butthead says: "Uh, is this like intelligent Dr.Ruth music?" Ok here's another funny line that our favorite poet Mandy Lion has come up with: "You heard about me About my skills You also heard that Mandy kills for thrills Old women blush The young ones squeal And they all know me for my steel appeal" <people...would you excuse me... I just have to go and get me something to think about... "bees do it, birds do it..."> ...musically this is pretty good track which could be a track from Holy Diver. my points: music 8+ lyrics [which I think were absolutely hilarious in a way]:9+ |
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| 8. Atomic Sex
Appeal <I'm really sorry about this people, but I can't probably give you a full review because I keep laughing my bollocks off...geez> What a total Spinal Tap this has become... I don't know if this is the worst track, but it certainly has it's moments.
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| 9.Drive You Crazy is
also one of those Kiss meets Ac/Dc. Vinny Appice is doing cool rhythm changes, but it doesn't save the song. Not rated |
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| 10. The Cage is much
better than most of the stuff in ww3. I especially loved Tracy's rhythm guitar sound. The Song starts with Jimmy Bain's bass guitar and Mandy's nihilistic and dark voice. This time I tried to ignore Mandy's lyrics and concentrate on the music itself, which was actually ok. The First guitar solo was little boring and short, but the second solo was much better and more emotional.
Not Rated |
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| I was very disappointed by this album. If Ronnie
would have been the vocalist and if the lyrics would have been other topics than just animalistic sex, it could have been much better.
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"God Damn-looking good tonight |
