DEAD LORD

(SWEDEN)

SURRENDER

(2020)
LABEL:

CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

GENRE:

HARD ROCK

TAGS:
80's, Old School
"If Phil Lynott's fans will feel like they're in old and comfortable slippers, "Surrender" will also only be able to quench the thirst of any lovers of heavy, racy and fighting Hard Rock."
CHILDERIC THOR (02.11.2020)  
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Despite a name that smells like Doom, Dead Lord imbibes more Thin Lizzy than Black Sabbath. Those who have been following them since 2013 and the inaugural "Goodbye Repentance" know above all that the Swedes are the best homage or clone (depending on what you want to call it) of Phil Lynott's band, to the point of seeing in their album what Thin Lizzy could have given birth to if his legendary and late bassist was still with us. If he chose the guitar rather than the four-string, the singer and founder Hakim Krim offers a vocal imitation as striking as it is disturbing of his model and offers melodic lines and solos in the beautiful and great tradition of classic hard rock from the 70s and 80s.

With a few minor adjustments to the line-up, Dead Lord is back three years after delivering an "In Ignorance We Trust" of pleasant memory. As always with the Scandinavians, "Surrender" is a pure rock album a little hard, simple and energetic, and which has no other pretension than to give the fans of the genre what they expect. Anachronistic perhaps, nostalgic undoubtedly but tonic surely, this fourth opus, following the example of its predecessors, distributes pleasure by box of twelve on ten tracks which all hit the bull's eye.

Nourished to the standards of yesteryear, the Swedes remember that the ideal length of a record is that imposed by vinyl. The result is a straightforward menu, without frills, from which all traces of darkness or sadness are rejected, except for 'Dark End Of The Rainbow', a more feverish composition. Faithful to an immediate style, the quartet still build songs like real goldsmith's pieces, asserting a little more their authority in this vintage but not dusty niche.

It seems very difficult not to succumb to these refreshing and heady titles. Starting with 'Distance Over Time', which launches the listening experience with devastating energy, the charm is already there. And the enjoyment with it. One taps one's foot, one moves one's head. One feels good, quite simply. Every part of this opus has an irresistible hook, between a feeling-filled 'Authority' or an 'Evil Always Wins' with a thick bass and an ultra-melodic chorus over which hovers the shadow of the Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow, between a biting 'Gonna Get Me' or an over-charged 'Bridges' and its speedy but sunny guitar parts.

Thin Lizzy's imprint remains as strong as ever, but besides the fact that it doesn't intend to free himself from it anyway, the quality of writing that Dead Lord shows is such that we can't reproach him for this totally claimed mimicry.  If Phil Lynott's fans will feel like they're in old and comfortable slippers, "Surrender" will also only be able to quench the thirst of any lovers of heavy, racy and fighting Hard Rock.
- Official website
SIMILAR BANDS:
HORISONT, THIN LIZZY

TRACK LISTING:
01. Distance Over Time
02. Letter From Allen St.
03. Authority
04. Evil Always Wins
05. Messin’ Up
06. Dark End Of The Rainbow
07. Bridges
08. The Loner’s Way
09. Gonna Get Me
10. Dystopia
11. Hands Down (Moon Martin Cover)
12. Moonchild (Rory Gallagher Cover)

LINEUP:
Adam Lindmark: Batterie
Hakim Krim: Chant / Guitares
Martin Nordin: Basse
Olle Hedenström: Guitares
   
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