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Guards of Metropolis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Slackertone Records
• ASIN: B000BYETN4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #480,174 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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More hooks than a Montana fishing trip. --Music Biz

Product Description

Two girls from Norway's Arctic Circle. Two guys from sunny California... A fistful of angst-driven rock and roll riffs tempered by the layered harmonies that Scandinavian groups are famous for lay the groundwork for this rock-pop manifesto. Think ABBA meets AC/DC... and then think again. Each song comes as a stylistic surprise, addressing the corruption found in today's society and the self-destruction urges we can all relate to. This adrenaline packed album will make you feel pumped up and ready to conquer the world. Rage never sounded as pretty as it does on this stunning debut.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Why haven't these guys made it?, March 31, 2008

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Robert R. Weiss "wireboss" (Taos, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: alligator (Audio CD)

Ok so the internet explosion was supposed to be a digital Robin Hood. Take money from the over bloated bands, and bring smaller bands to a new medium plateau. Case in point, with contemporary music being harder to craft, we have The Guards of Metropolis: The magical crafting of song stretched out on a technical powerhouse delivery system.

Take a listen to: "Perfect World" and see if you can avoid humming it all next week. What GOM has that others lack is their rare combination of melody and snap. I have truly loved this bands demo's when I could get my hands on them.

This release includes a new direction that I wasn't aware of from the live act....Alligator is a swirly mist of a track that some may miss, because it's the last track. Also, "Postcards from heaven" is penned by the guitarist's old collaborator Aslak (From Merchants of Venus-Norway), showing new experimentation with other's crafting of songs for the band. If you are an adventurous music aficionado, you may need comparisons. Ok hard, but shall we say: early Garbage, Rammstein, Edwin Collins, Blondie...well if you give a chance to the tracks I mentioned..maybe you could do your own review?


Guards Of Metropolis is a great thing. Again I ask Why haven't these guys made it? The notio raises the question of what is making it anyway....