Description
Rare original 1994 Swedish press on Empire Records
Talisman is another, in the very long list of exceptional bands that the one-and-only Jeff Scott Soto was involved with. I can’t imagine how this guy isn’t a household name like Bon Jovi or Ronnie James Dio, but I guess sometimes the best things in life aren’t well known. This is the most interesting album for Talisman, in my opinion. Its definitely the heaviest that Talisman ever put out, with several of the songs reaching into metal territory. Tracks like Blissful Garden and Color My XTC make you think, are these guys melodic rock or heavy metal? Seasons and Fabricated War are other standouts of the record, and again you must ask why these guys weren’t able to make a larger impact on the music scene? 1994 when it was first release was probably not the best of years for melodic hard rock; still Talisman”s invnetive technical/melodic sound had established a considerable following in Europe and Japan that perfectly justified the making of a third album. And Humanimal is a really amazing set of melodic rock songs from bassist Marcel Jacob, guitarist Fredrick Akersson and new entry drummer Jamie Borger. The band recorded so many tracks at this session that it was released with four different tracklists of the same album for each geographical market. All those songs were eventually collected in two cds titled “Humanimal pt1” and “Humanimal pt2”. Over the years hard rock enthusiast/journalists/fans have argued as to whether “Humanimal” or its predecessor, “Genesis” was the best studio effort in “Talisman”s career. Despite the rhetorical queston, one has to objectively point out that “humanimal” is the most complete “Talisman” album ever, with its technical, groovy, distorted, melodic and catchy hard rock that esily stood the test of time.
Track list:
1. 3233 / Colour My Xtc
2. Fabricated War
3. Tainted Pages
4. TV Reality
5. Seasons
6. All + All
7. D.O.A.P.S.
8. Blissful Garden
9. Lonely World
10. Delusions Of Grandeur
11. Since You’ve Gone
12. Humanimal
13. Doin Time Wit My Baby