Letzte Instanz – Liebe im Krieg

Label: AFM Records  Release: 12th August 2016  Playing Time: 47 min

Letzte Instanz has already released 11 albums – so many, but still they could not step out of the shadow of bands like Subway to Sally, In Extremo or Schandmaul.  Their new 12^th album should change everything and live up to the spearheads of the German Rock/Metal scene.

To succeed with this attempt, Letzte Instanz and their producer Markus Schlichterle (known for his work with non-Metal acts like Juli and Christina Stürmer) has bred 12 unbelievably pop-style songs. They should be catchy. And they are  in some ways, yet in a way they fail to be catchy, because nothing stuck in my memory after 4 times in a row listening to the entire album. Unbelievably pop-sounding guitars as well, although the sound is quite heavy (just like the album as a whole, the be fair), but nevertheless a certain edge is missing. After a whole listening cycle, I got a feeling that I have just heard  the same song 12 times, just with a little bit of different lyrics. Maybe someone likes this stuff, but I do not!

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