Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To leave an impression on the minds of those aching for the new is to place caution to the wind and emphasise with honour the ability to charm and lure with equal fashion; to be technically proficient is all well and good, but if you don’t have charisma then all is lost in this modern world where presentation and ideas is nothing without a large and deafening personality.
Caution is not just thrown, but catapulted by the fierce five of Beastö Blancö as they bring their latest album punching, screaming, and tantalisingly to the fore, and as Kinetica thunders through the listener’s understanding of the genre, as they apply petrol to the fire and urge the faithful to fan the fires of the fortune and resolve in a wonderfully envisioned performance that looms large in the attention to detail and reflection of the purpose of Metal.
The line up for the album sees Chuck Garric’s vocals soar alongside Calico Cooper’s with finesse and fury, and when placed alongside the guitar, bass and drums of Brother Latham, Jan Legrow, and Sean Sellers respectively, what transpires is a collection of songs that breathe in the petrol thrown in the fire and revs the engines to the point where one hundred miles per hour straight out of the blocks is not just achievable, but expected and praised.
The raw and the poised, every element used without spare, that is how to view the music that the energy insists upon, and as tracks exemplifies the sense of the theatrical confidence that is all persuasive in the album, so Nobody Move, the excellent Kill Us Off With A Smile, Skull Reader, Diamonds In The Dirt, Bad Thoughts, and Unreal, which features producer and lead vocalist of the impressive German metal band Lord Of The Lost, Chris Harms, the dramatic is driven, the excess is lauded, and the pulse races so hard that it requires a course of statins to be deployed at every interval.
Kinetica is a vigour wilfully enforced, it is the pleasure of the immersion in a stage bedecked with every possible application to beguile and amaze, a reflection of the absolute quality at hand within the band.
Ian D. Hall