Once
again Julian Angel's Beautiful Beast has taken a ride on the time machine back
to 1989. Their third album ‘Kick Down The Barricades’ sounds as old fashioned as
any hair metal fan would expect it to be. Just the way they did on predecessors
‘Adult Oriented Candy’ (2011) and ‘California Suntan’ (2012) Beautiful Beast
have refused to add any modern elements to their songs and thereby manifest
their reputation of being Hair Metal traditionalists – or retards as other
people may have it.
‘Kick
Down The Barricades’ sounds rawer and edgier than the band’s previous records
and left room for spontaneity and improvisation even in an all so sterile studio
environment. The album was recorded at Julian Angel’s studio The Vegas Room and
mastered by Rolf Munkes (Tony Martin Band, Empire, Razorback) at Empire Studios,
Germany.
Two
months prior to the official album release Beautiful Beast have published the
music video for the album’s opening track ‘Bad Boys Never Dance’ for which they
could win legendary glam journalist Kelv Hellrazer to starr as the VJ.
The
sound, the style, the same old stories – you have heard it all before and you
will hear it again. Julian Angel and Beautiful Beast don’t reinvent the wheel.
They simply keep it turning when others have run out of gasoline.
Beautiful
Beast mastermind Julian Angel is a German rock musician with, by now, five
albums to his record as well as a German Rock Award nomination for ‘Best
Guitarist’ in 2000. Julian has scored a #8 chart album in Austria as songwriter
for rockabilly group The Monroes in 2013. He is also the sole producer of
MusicBiz Madness, a music business conference for unsigned musicians, which
regularly features renowned keynote speakers from the German music industry.
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