tempobet yeni adresi
like this cd review

11/12/2016 : RED FANG - Only Ghosts

RED FANG

Only Ghosts

MusicCD
Hard RockStoner Rock

[80/100]   

Relapse Records
11/12/2016, Mark VAN MULLEM

After three years of vigorously touring the world, Red Fang is back with a brand new album: Only Ghosts, released October 14th. The fourth album by the stoner rock quartet is produced by Ross Robinson (At The Drive In, The Cure, Slipknot) and mixed by Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss). Let's not beat about the bush, touched by the hand of both Robinson and Baressi, all of the ten tracks on the album have that typical Red Fang signature to it, which means Only Ghosts sounds great!

On Only Ghosts the band continues to please with a high impact, hook filled stoner rock with irresistable fat grooves and great melodies. The album is not ground breaking, nor is it something completely different then what you already knew from the band, just expect more and much better of the same recipe; absolute grand songs and great riffs. From the throaty Flies to the proggy instrumental Flames over the almost poppy Not For You or the apocalyptic The Smell Of Sound, the new Red Fang kicks ass for 41 minutes!

It's hard to find a lesser track on this album as there is none. But there are some notble tracks of course. To name them: the haunting and daunting No Air with its fat choruses, desperate vocals, grand guitars and its overal big sound, or the apocalyptic and scaring The Smell Of Sound, wow! Another great tune is I Am Ghost. Those guitars, man! And there's Cut It Short of course, kicking off with a Nirvana-like intro riff - Love Buzz*, Nirvana's take on the Shocking Blue-song, a yone? - and developing into a majestic power pop song, surely a firm candidate for a single, I would say. The same goes for Not For You with its great riffing, killer choruses and grand vocals, with the singalong chorus he wants it all she wants it all they want it all, this could be an instant hit? It Should!

With this fourth album, Red Fang has found the perfect balance between sledgehammer riffs and hooks, screams,shouts and clean vocals, fat grooves, some wonderful melodies and even poppy tunes. All of the songs have a truly great architecture to them without getting too arty farty or even proggy, and keeping the no nonsense rock & noise and fuzz in the sound.

If I were you, I would buy the new Red Fang album. Don't hesitate. I must warn you though, you could end up like me and play it in repeat constantly and especially tracks like Not For You, Cut It Short and No Air!

Mark VAN MULLEM
11/12/2016


Music reviews

14
03
THEN COMES SILENCE
Trickery
13
03
DARK MINIMAL PROJECT
Remixes
27
02
WHISPERING SONS
The Great Calm
22
02
YOUR ENEMY
Broken Toys
21
02
XTORT
Zwart
03
02
MERCIFUL NUNS
Oneironauts

NEWSLETTER

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

NEWS

19
03
Just One Fix | 4 Years Since Ministry Unleashed Sphinctour
18
03
Today, 44 years ago, Joy Division released 'Licht und Blindheit'.
17
03
A Darker Shade Of Green | The Virgin Prunes On Saint Patrick’s Day
17
03
Today, 38 years ago, Depeche Mode released its fifth studio album Black Celebration!
16
03
Today, 37 years ago, Siouxsie and the Banshees released The Passenger!
16
03
Today, 40 years ago, Siousxie And The Banshees released the single Swimming Horses!

Concert reviews

16
11
DREADFOOL - EUFORIC EXISTENCE - EULFI
ELECTRO au BNR
09
09
ENZO KREFT - DARK MINIMAL PROJECT - CAUSENATION
@B52 Music Club Eernegem
23
08
AMPHI FESTIVAL 2023
A second opinion...
18
06
ERATO - BLACK SNOW IN SUMMER
Black Planet Fest - @ B 52 Music Club Eernegem - friday 19th of may
18
06
KORINTHIANS, NEL & JP, NONA PROBLEMO
@Charlatan Ghent - 25 mei 2023
06
05
SIOUXSIE
The glorious resurrection after ten years of silence.

GET A COPY OF OUR MAGAZINE
SEND TO YOUR HOME

INTERVIEWS

15
03
GOETHES ERBEN
When one is young, one does not think about the fact that one day everything will be over. And that is also beautiful and exciting, because as you get older, you look at the past differently.
14
03
EMPUSAE
I link the strength I have had to go up and down the tens of thousands of steps, to confront the heat and the hustle and bustle of the crowds, more and more directly with the nature spirit Ganriki.
29
02
SYNICAL
An Interview With Electro Industrial Artist, Synical
28
02
DEMONWARP
An Interview With Demonwarp
16
02
ELEKTRIKILL
An Interview With Electro-Industrial Band, Elektrikill

PHOTOS

17
03
BEYOND OBSESSION
Mono Deluxe Meschede
07
03
VNV NATION
Stadsfeestzaal Aarschot
07
03
VNV NATION
Stadsfeestzaal Aarschot
07
03
KOSHEEN
Stadsfeestzaal Aarschot
07
03
THE ARCH
Stadsfeestzaal Aarschot
07
03
THE OBSCURE
Stadsfeestzaal Aarschot
07
03
FRONT 242
Stadsfeestzaal Aarschot

ADVERTISE
IN PEEK-A-BOO

VIDEO CLIPS

18
03
DES AMES LIBRES
Cold Hands
17
03
DIRTY HARRY
D' BOP
16
03
MOLLY NILSSON
1995
15
03
CLOCK DVA
The Hacker
14
03
LYNCELIA
Self-Mystery Girl
13
03
CAT RAPES DOG
Moosehair Underwear
12
03
MIREXXX
Inside You