The W.A.S.P., that one from
'80s, which drew attention and shocked the purists with their theatrical
performances (with the right to nude models, raw meat, reenactments of torture,
etc.) and many sexually oriented lyrics, including also becoming one of the favorite
target of the PMRC, and several albums
have received a label "Parental Advisory", which also becoming in more publicity for some artists, the time was becoming
and just like the look more sober, the lyrical content was also changing, and
we can put the album "The Headless Children" (89) as a divider,
marking this change of sound and attitude, of course, all this according to
their mentor, Blackie Lawless (WASP is Lawless, we cannot deny). In the same
year the band broke up, and in 1992, what was to be a Lawless' solo album, was
released under the name W.A.S.P., making it their masterpiece, the acclaimed
conceptual album "Crimson Idol".
Since then,
between several exchanges of members, Lawless has been releasing albums
regularly, and keeping the band relevant with good albums like the two parts of
"The Neon God" (2004) and "Babylon" (2009), the last studio
album until 2015, which finally sees the light of the day the new work,
"Golgotha," which has been produced since 2011 (in the meantime
Lawless also underwent surgery, because a broken leg).
About the
writing process, i have to open parentheses for some Blackie Lawless' cool words: "One thing you
learn over the years in the song writing process, is that after the songs begin
to take shape, they will eventually start to talk back to you and they will
tell you where they wanna go. The trick
is learning to listen when they speak."
Battling
anxiety and expectation of hearing a new work after 6 years, time to listen "Golgotha". Well, the first chords of "Scream", the opening track, it is possible to identify that is WASP that is playing, simple like that!
the melodies, the voice feature of Lawless, the backing vocals, the hooked
chorus and a heavy sound, great choice for opening track. No inventions or
complications, is WASP! and it is very good!
"Last
Runaway" has a melody "lighter", a well taken Hard Rock,
pleasant and catchy, and in its lyrics Lawless talks about the time he spent
difficulties in Hollywood, being virtually a homeless for a period;
"Shotgun" is also very "commercial", with kind of simple melodies, but very cool, and showing that the old Lawless forged a fine
collection of melodies and choruses "sticky" in recent times,
something that he is a master.
"Miss
You" is a ballad performed with emotion in that familiar formula of
Metal ballads, which grows in the chorus, that longer, melodic and deep guitar solo,
in fact, a beautiful solo by Doug Blair. And Lawless has wrote in WASP's web site that "Miss You" was the first song he has written to the album "Crimson Idol", which along
with two others, did not enter the album;
"Fallen Under" sounds introspective and is gaining in emotion and power,
highlighting a beautiful work of Dupke on drums, well ... the chorus again are great; "Slaves of the New World Order" begins with vocal
melodies accompanied by keyboard (it has a well-placed hammonds, which
incidentally, appear on several tracks), to then enter "galloping riffs", traditional rhythms and even a choir ("hey hey hey
hey!"), surely you've heard something like that, even in some W.A.S.P. albums, but it
is done by those who knows about the business!
"Eyes of
My Maker", brings more good melodies and choruses, and also an air
"nostalgic", well, i felt this for all the work, I want to reaffirm what i have said
at the beginning, is simply W.A.S.P., with all the features we know. Well, the music
follows the pattern of the album, which is more introspective as a whole, with
the songs following this more "ballad" way, but never
being tiring, as well as "Hero of the World," which follows a similar
taken .
"Golgotha",
the title track, is pretty much a "power ballad" with structure and
melodies in a simple way, as well as other songs on the album, but with a
melodic sense made by someone who really knows what are doing! Highlighting the great chorus
and striking vocals of Lawless, who has no major variations or features, but has the
main one being the personality and feeling.
An album in
which the W.A.S.P. fan will find everything they'd expect, great choruses and catchy
melodies, Heavy/Hard without inventions or without instrumental dazzling, after all,
who have said that good music has to be complicated? Quite the opposite! And 33-years of
career are not 3! Blackie Lawless, thanks for giving us what we expect, good
music of the great W.A.S.P.!
Carlos Garcia
Text: Carlos Garcia
Band: W.A.S.P.
Album: Golgotha (2015)
Country: EUA
Genre: Heavy/Hard
Label: Napalm Records
Line-up:
Blackie
Lawless - Vocals, Guitarist
Mike Duda -
Bass Guitar
Doug Blair - Lead Guitar
Mike Dupke -
Drums
Track listing
Scream
Last Runaway
Shotgun
Miss You
Fallen Under
Slaves Of The New World Order
Eyes Of My Maker
Hero Of The World
Golgotha
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