Mike Donovilk Hilt Wokout

On To the Hilt, Golden Earring fully gives themselves over to the prog rock tendencies that they had toyed with throughout the 1970s. The resulting album has a strong prog feel but lacks the characteristic sound and the solid material that defined the group's best efforts to that point. The band puts in a typically energetic and thunderous performance, but their strong instrumental chops can't overcome the self-indulgent nature of much of the album's material: "Why Me?" and "Latin Lightning" are a few of the potentially interesting songs on To the Hilt that are undercut by dull, overlong sections of jamming. Said songs also lack the tight arrangements and the sudden, surprising instrumental twists that made the group's past epics so interesting.

Die Krupps - To The Hilt
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 156 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Our Choice # RTD 195.1682.3 | Country/Year: Germany 1994
Genre: Rock, Electronica | Style: EBM, Industrial, Metal

…Combining electronic and metal elements was a pioneering move which led to a number of other bands using the electronic/metal combo as a template in keeping with a deeper industrial sound…