Gotthard

Artist: Gotthard
Label: Bmg/Ariola
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4007192623068
ASIN: B0000269TW

Release Date: 1992-02-20

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THE ULTIMATE HARD ROCK COLLECTION

Tracks:

Standing in the Light
Downtown
Firedance
Hush
Mean Street Rocket
Get Down
Take Me
Angel
Lonely Heartache
Hunter
All I Care For
That's It

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Customer Reviews:

Got It Hard! (With second t upturned).......2005-11-21

Swiss hard rock veterans having peculiar spelling of upturned "t" as the band name has been unknown to the music fans outside Switzerland, Japan and some of German and Europeran metal fans community. Its debut album gained high appreciation from metal fans particularly of Europe and Japan. They already had a number of live concerts in Japan and most known to us by theme song for late Swiss K-1 champion Andy Hug.

Debut album in 1992 has full of really no-nonsense straight-ahead hard rock enough to hold the presence among the rock connoisseurs.

STANDING IN THE LIGHT is edgy yet catchy uptempo rocker somewhat close to that of BON JOVI. DOWNTOWN is pure Euro-metal probably influenced from German classic metal bands such as SCORPIONS. FIREDANCE is an excellently made mid-tempo emotional power ballad. HUSH is of course the cover of DEEP PURPLE classic and well cared for. MEAN STREET ROCKET and TAKE ME are feel-good uptempo rockers probably loved in live concerts. ANGEL and ALL I CARED FOR are excellent ballads showing they are well cut out for pop approach as some of the latest releases show.

Verdict: Well-refined for the debut. Struggling for shining out of the crowds.
Rating: 84 out of 100 Nice start for the debut.
Recommended for: Bon Jovi, Whitenake, and German metal fans.

Good heavy metal.......2004-05-07

The debut album from Gotthard (1992) is a solid rock effort and it's more or less obvious that Gotthard are influenced by Whitesnake's "1987". The music is guitar riff based heavy metal with some blues and a lot of melody. Singer Steve Lee has a very good voice and the rest of the band is without doubt good musicians. It's too bad that Gotthard haven't got the attention they deserve because this band is just as good as any other band in this genre. If you like Tyketto, Hardline or Lionsheart you will probably like this album. The material is strong and songs like "Standing in the light", "Down town", "Firedance", and "Lonely heartache" should please any fan of traditional but melodic heavy metal. My only objection (which lower the ranking from a 4 to a 3) is that the songs are rather similar to one another and in the long run they have a slight tendency to melt together.

Buy it!.......2000-02-23

Do you love Dio? s The last line and Holy diver, Whitsnake? Then buy this cd. The songs are all great clasic hard-rock pieces and the singer has great voice. Is that enough?

terrific classic hard-rocj band with great singer.......2000-02-23

This is the first album of the swiss hard rock band called Gotthard. If you love Deep Purple, Whitesnake and Dio YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS CD. ALL (I say: all) songs are excellent: The sound is hard and the singer is probably the best hard-rock singer with Ronnie Dio. As a guest VIVIAN CAMPBELL plays a great solo on the song "Firedance". Don?t miss it. Believe me, you won?t regret it.

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