“Melting Point” is an album with a lot of atmospheres. It goes far from what is expected from european bands from the 1980s, most of them playing some speed metal. Excess do that too, but not too much. They preferred to build songs, piece by piece, guitar lines by guitar lines, vocals by vocals, and the result is a very well mixed album. For instance, “The Stranger” has a great taste of Black Sabbath’s Heaven And Hell. Powerfull and thick guitar lines. Thundering bass and Ian Astbury vocals. Could get better than that? Really don’t know. You tell me.
Maybe the problem with Excess “Melting Point” is that it was too well producted. Production can kill albums sometimes, but I don’t think that way. It just happened. But surely Excess deserved better. Or maybe “Melting Point” was too eightish to 1980s metal fans. I’m from that time and I would have enjoyed Excess “Melting Point”. Who the hell knows?
Track Listing:
- Foreign Lands
- Rough Edge
- Too Much
- Glamour Girl
- Burning the Night Away
- The Stranger
- Cut
- The Game
- Foreign Lands (bonus track)
- The Game (bonus track)
- Too Much (bonus track)
You can listen to “Foreign Lands” here:
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