Pretty Maids - Pandemonium

\r\nSometimes when I try to write a review it’s hard to describe what I feel for solid releases which I must review and this is the most honest reason why I don’t really know how to write about this. This is most likely to happen when I like a band very much, and even worse if it is your favorite one. However I’ll try to be objective. \r\n

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\r\nPretty Maids  can look back on almost three decades of solid Rock, but after their eighties’ successes it seems they were a bit quiet, which is no surprise knowing that some of their 12 albums were certainly a step down from the famous Future World.\r\n

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\r\nAfter 4 years absence Danish melodic metallers come to rock the boat with their 13th album and it called “Pandemonium’’. It caught me by surprise to find out that a longtime running band could still write in such powerful way. On their latest release you’ll listen to 11 melodic dynamites of Ηard Rock and Ηeavy Metal and nothing more. In This album there aren’t so-so tracks. It reminds me of the good old albums Future World and Jumb the Gun. The new record has all the trademarks of a good PRETTY MAIDS album. A combination of good melodies and strong guitar riffs. But the key word, as far as I’m concerned, is it’s got to be melodic: whether it’s the heavier and faster tracks like One World One Truth,Cielo Drive and the ’’Pandemonium’’ which are really powerful and speed Ηeavy Metal whereas It Comes at Night is more in Ηard’n’Heavy forms or the more melodic/AOR-oriented kind of stuff like Old Enough To Know, Breathless and Little Drops Of Heaven. Produced by Jacob Hansen (Volbeat), the album sounds huge with tons of clarity and a monstrously big vibe. I think that’’Pandemonium’’ looks like gold. This is a classic in my collection and a very powerful release. \r\n

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\r\nAndreas Anellos\r\n

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