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It's been awhile since the last Cannon album, but now they are back with Burning Love, their 4th album.
Guardian Pipes is an intro with bag pipes and a bell tolling. It leads into Guardian Of The Night, a catchy rocker which shows references to Accept / U.D.O. (vocals). The title track offers 80's like backings and isn't as heavy as e.g. Accept, but will hook you up right away. Oliver Krueger's guitar is more hard rock-ish... The fast rocker Hands Up With The Devil make me think of Mydra, even if Cannon is less poppy. If Mat Rein Jaehnke's voice wouldn't be so raspy, it would sound even more melodic... more hard rock-ish. The balladesque Goodbye couldn't really get me, but that's just me... Luckily they speed up for Life, another catchy riff-based rocker. Bachrock is a guitar piece inspired by Bach's compositions. But then they get back to guitar-driven heavy metal with Holy Devil. An atmospheric opening passage has Run For Your Life, but soon heavy riffs take over - and again Cannon merge together hard rock and heavy metal elements. And they stay on their chosen path for the last two tracks.
Fans of German heavy metal with an 80's hard rock edge should check out Burning Love!
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