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Jack Starr's Guardians of the Flame - Under a Savage Sky
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
First I knew Jack Starr only as the ex-guitarist and founder of the Power Metal band "VIRGIN STEELE".
I love the album "Under A Savage Sky" and it's uniquely stylistic balance between traditional and today's current sound.
Like other guitar players Jack Starr also offers different techniques of guitar playing, but there is something different:
Jack Starr's guitar melodies are extremely stirring, touching, wild and passionate!
You can not find everywhere this exciting contrast of hard riffs and very emotionally presented moving melodies and a guitar sound full of heart and soul.
This is why I never would have renounced his performance with
BURNING STARR on July 11th, 2008 at the Magic Circle Festival in Germany (Bad Arolsen).
I'm pretty excited to get Jack Starr's new Melodic Metal CD "DEFIANCE"
which should come out very soon.
It must be already Jack Starr's 13th CD with changing bands (this talented guitar hero seems to like to be not limited to only one band and style to realize his tremendously great repertoire of ideas!).
The songs which I have heard at this mentioned festival and at the pre-listening session are absolutely great!
I like the new singer's voice (Todd Michael Hall) very much! It is high, powerful and voluminous and he presented his singing in so many different ways and therefore underlines the expression of the extremely moving tunes.
If you like screams full of whole elemental power, while high charisma is lying in every tone and every word which is pronounced - you will know what I mean.
The sensational riffs and the catchy chorus lines in Jack Starr's versatile Melodic Metal songs I can remember very well.
This up-coming album must be great!
Spectacularly demanding is for example the title song "Defiance" - which starts as a goose-flesh making ballad and rises up to a bursting true metal song.
"The beast inside", on the other hand, will let you dive into a gloomy threatening atmosphere with heavily dragging sounds that could be an answer to the Music style of METALLICA.
Of course you will also find surprising, lively and dramatic guitar solo melodies, the wild rocking energy, the touch of the Indian spirit, mythic elements, middle-eastern accessories, freeing passages, profoundly developed song constructions with genre overstepping stylistic influences and at least the battering power of the thrilling "live" atmosphere from the festival in 2008.
To all European explorers of earth shaking metal events it is firmly recommended to visit the next Jack Starr's BURNING STARR concert
on July 18th, 2009
at the next Magic Circle Festival in the tremendous "Loreley" amphitheatre
in St. Goarshausen - together with
MANOWAR, HOLY HELL, KINGDOM COME, DOMAIN and many other bands.
For the rest of this world: Feel invited to watch the 2008 video clip of Jack Starr's BURNING STARR's song "Evil never sleeps" at the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8jvDUc8DI&feature=channel_page
Insiders may know Jack Starr as one of the most important pioneers and inventors of the new style in U.S. Power Metal in the past.
Progress will show that this guitar hero will surprise us with defining many more paths for exceptional, clever Melodic Metal variants which will become copied in the future times.
Websites for more information:
http://www.jackstarr.com
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=stratluvr
http://www.spacecoastlive.com/calendar/band/001408
http://www.myspace.com/jackstarrmetal
http://www.myspace.com/jackstarrsburningstarr
http://www.guardiansoftheflame.us/
http://www.myspace.com/jackstarrbluesband
http://www.jackstarrblues.com
MELODIC GREETINGS FROM GERMANY!
Magic Circle Festival 2008 - Stuart's Festival Report - Days 3 & 4
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Hi!
Great report. Great Festival! But I miss the photos of my favourite band
Jack Starr's BURNING STARR.
There is too less information in this world about exceptional musicians like Jack Starr.
This is why I first also knew Jack Starr only as the ex-guitarist and founder of the Power Metal band "VIRGIN STEELE".
I love the album "Under A Savage Sky" and it's uniquely stylistic balance between traditional and today's current sound.
Like other guitar players Jack Starr also offers different techniques of guitar playing, but there is something different:
Jack Starr's guitar melodies are extremely stirring, touching, wild and passionate!
You can not find everywhere this exciting contrast of hard riffs and very emotionally presented moving melodies and a guitar sound full of heart and soul.
This is why I never would have renounced his performance with
BURNING STARR on July 11th, 2008 at the Magic Circle Festival in Germany (Bad Arolsen).
I'm pretty excited to get Jack Starr's new Melodic Metal CD "DEFIANCE"
which should come out very soon.
It must be already Jack Starr's 13th CD with changing bands (this talented guitar hero seems to like to be not limited to only one band and style to realize his tremendously great repertoire of ideas!).
The songs which I have heard at this mentioned festival and at the pre-listening session are absolutely great!
I like the new singer's voice (Todd Michael Hall) very much! It is high, powerful and voluminous and he presented his singing in so many different ways and therefore underlines the expression of the extremely moving tunes.
If you like screams full of whole elemental power, while high charisma is lying in every tone and every word which is pronounced - you will know what I mean.
The sensational riffs and the catchy chorus lines in Jack Starr's versatile Melodic Metal songs I can remember very well.
This up-coming album must be great!
Spectacularly demanding is for example the title song "Defiance" - which starts as a goose-flesh making ballad and rises up to a bursting true metal song.
"The beast inside", on the other hand, will let you dive into a gloomy threatening atmosphere with heavily dragging sounds that could be an answer to the Music style of METALLICA.
Of course you will also find surprising, lively and dramatic guitar solo melodies, the wild rocking energy, the touch of the Indian spirit, mythic elements, middle-eastern accessories, freeing passages, profoundly developed song constructions with genre overstepping stylistic influences and at least the battering power of the thrilling "live" atmosphere from the festival in 2008.
To all European explorers of earth shaking metal events it is firmly recommended to visit the next Jack Starr's BURNING STARR concert
on July 18th, 2009
at the next Magic Circle Festival in the tremendous "Loreley" amphitheatre
in St. Goarshausen - together with
MANOWAR, HOLY HELL, KINGDOM COME, DOMAIN and many other bands.
For the rest of this world: Feel invited to watch the 2008 video clip of Jack Starr's BURNING STARR's song "Evil never sleeps" at the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8jvDUc8DI&feature=channel_page
Insiders may know Jack Starr as one of the most important pioneers and inventors of the new style in U.S. Power Metal in the past.
Progress will show that this guitar hero will surprise us with defining many more paths for exceptional, clever Melodic Metal variants which will become copied in the future times.
Websites for more information:
http://www.jackstarr.com
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=stratluvr
http://www.spacecoastlive.com/calendar/band/001408
http://www.myspace.com/jackstarrmetal
http://www.myspace.com/jackstarrsburningstarr
http://www.guardiansoftheflame.us/
http://www.myspace.com/jackstarrbluesband
http://www.jackstarrblues.com
MELODIC GREETINGS FROM GERMANY!
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