Description
For those unfamiliar with Rob Rock let me do a quick rundown of his history in heavy metal. Rob has made his name as the long-time vocalist for guitar wizard Chris Impellitteri’s band Impellitteri. Rock has also worked for German guitar legend Axel Rudi Pell on his album Nasty Reputation. Rock actually started his career in the supposed super heavy metal band MARS on their album Project: Driver back in 86. He worked with greats like Tony MacAlpine and Tommy Aldridge both of Ozzy fame and he also appeared on The Metal Opera by Avantasia. So after 20 years Rock has now finally decided it was time for a solo album and on Rage Of Creation he found himself surrounded by the line up of Roy Z (Bruce Dickinson and Judas Priest) on guitar, bass and keyboards, Reynold Carlson on drums (ex Jag Panzer) and has Ray Burke (ex Ozzy) doing bass on some songs and Jake E Lee (ex Ozzy) laying out some shredding lead solos on a few songs. With his powerful voice Rock gives us eleven classic hard rock songs. When you’re used to a guitar virtuoso like Chris Impelliteri you won’t settle for – much – less of course and Roy Z – just like Jake E. Lee – is playing the stars from the sky on Rage Of Creation. Time after time these gentlemen produce one great riff after the other, but they know how to play a solo as well. Just listen to Roy’s excellent guitar work on the closing song Forever. Most surprising song on the album is the Abba cover Eagle which has been given a very convincing rock treatment. Ritchie Blackmore once said that Abba was the perfect pop band. The fact that their songs are very suitable for a more solid performance has already been demonstrated by Helloween and Yngwie Malmsteen. And now it’s Rob Rock’s turn to come up with his version of an Abba song which he does very successfully. All in all Rage Of Creation is a great debut, but I didn’t expect anything else from someone with such a history of great performances behind him
Track listing:
1. In The Beginning
2. The Sun Will Rise Again
3. One Way Out
4. Judgment Day
5. Streets Of Madness
6. Eagle-Abba cover
7. All I Need
8. Media Machine
9. In The Night
10. Never Too Late
11. Forever