Bizarro World
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| Label (s) | Lifeforce Records | |||
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CD |
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11 |
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40 min 16 s |
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Sebastian Reichl |
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Slaughter's Palace Studios, Regensburg |
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Bizarro World is the fifth studio album by the German melodic death metal band Deadlock . It was released on February 25, 2011 via Lifeforce Records and brought the band to the chart for the first time .
Emergence
In spring 2010, the musicians began pre-production of the album. In addition to the new songs, a cover version of the Running Wild song “When Time Runs Out” was created for a sampler . The recordings took place in October and November 2010 in the Slaugher's Palace studio of the guitarist Sebastian Reichl, who also took over the production. The drums were recorded in the Daily Hero Recordings studio in Berlin .
Mixed was Bizarro World by Florian Nowak, the mastering took Alex Kloss. Hubert Zaindl appears on the piano as a guest musician in the song “Paranoia Extravaganza” . The digipak version of the album also contains remixes of the songs "State of Decay" and "Virus Jones" as a bonus. A music video was shot for the song "Virus Jones" .
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The album title Bizarro World refers to the cartoon character Bizarro . In his world "Bizarro World" (or "Htrae") everything is reversed. In an interview, bassist John Gahlert explained that there are parallels between the world of the fictional character Bizarro and the earth of the present.
“It's about how twisted a lot in the world is. Most people simply eat what they are accused of. If they continued to think, many a lie would quickly collapse. Just take our health system , in which people benefit from the fact that people are sick. "
"Virus Jones" criticizes the pharmaceutical industry , which produces drugs that defeat diseases, but make the patient sick again through the side effects. “State of Decay” deals with the empty promises made by politicians . “Earthlings” is about the fact that many consider humans to be the crown of creation . "Renegade" calls for you to take your own destiny into your own hands in order to change the world.
reception
Bizarro World received various reviews from the trade press.
Reviewer Jens from the online magazine metal.de gave the album the top grade of 10 because the band “has provided impressive proof that you can write a long groove with commercial potential that does not ingratiate itself and can inspire you again and again even after well over fifty runs ". Christian Kruse from the German magazine Metal Hammer described Bizarro World as a high-class album with which Deadlock will finally reach for the stars.
The album was rated differently by the German magazine Rock Hard . While Volkmar Weber described Bizarro World as a “graceful, thoughtful and ambitious album away from the pigeonholes” and gave it eight out of ten points, Götz Kühnemund criticized that the album was “completely conceptualized and trimmed for the“ next big thing ”,” for which he awarded only five points. Samuel Stelzer from the online magazine metalnews.de, on the other hand, criticized Sabine Scherer's “similar-sounding, pop-like refrains ” and stated that the band “would lack the fresh wind that the musicians brought to the scene”. Stelzer gave 4.5 out of seven points.
With Bizarro World , Deadlock made it into the charts for the first time. The album entered the German album charts at number 61 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian Kessler: "Head first". In: Metal Hammer , March 2011, page 58
- ↑ metal.de: Interview with Deadlock at metal.de
- ↑ metal.de: Deadlock - Bizarro World - CD Review
- ↑ metal-hammer.de: DEADLOCK Bizarro World review ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Rock Hard, March 2011, p. 106
- ↑ metalnews.de: CD review: Deadlock - Bizarro World
- ↑ musicline.de: Chart tracking / Deadlock / longplay ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
