{"id":3508,"date":"2015-10-17T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powerofmetal.dk\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2015-10-17T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T15:09:28","slug":"zebrahead-walk-the-plank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/reviews\/zebrahead-walk-the-plank","title":{"rendered":"Zebrahead – Walk the Plank"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Big in Japan, that is this band from the USA for sure, here in Europe, however, the band is a lot less popular. With about one\u00a0new album every two years, this is their 11th release in almost 20 years\u00a0of existence.<\/p>\n

Compared with their 2013 album “Call Your Friends”, the music didn’t change a lot.\u00a0The songs are still a mix of pop, punk and reggae\/ska\/funk\u00a0influences. Most of the songs have the same build up, starting with a verse, then a chorus, a verse, a chorus, a solo etc. All of the refrains are easy to sing along with and\u00a0all songs are rather radio friendly. Besides the\u00a0normal vocal parts by Matty Lewis, also rapper Ali Tabatabaee\u00a0contributes quite a lot, too.<\/p>\n

I like the heavier and\u00a0faster songs most, like for instance the opening track, which has a rather heavy\u00a0riff for a Zebrahead song and also the fast track “Save Your Breath”\u00a0sees to it that it is not going to sound too mellow and too cheesy. “Wasted Generation” is another rather heavy song in which\u00a0the band is more punk-rock than pop-rock, also it\u00a0contains a nice melodic guitar solo.\u00a0“Battle Hymn” is a song filled with funky reggae\/ska guitars and\u00a0rhytmns, but after that\u00a0a real punk song follows. That track is together with the first song one of my favorites. The style of the band is not one I’m living in, like thrash, but every now and then\u00a0I can appreciate this\u00a0type of music.<\/p>\n

Again a nice effort from this band, but there are too little changes and\u00a0surprises to really outshine other releases.<\/p>\n