Mass-Angel Power

SPV

1980/2010



Wow, ummm this album is kind of well... rough to be quite honest. It sounds a very raw and very early rehearsel. However this was actually the band's forth album. The prodction is weak the vocals being twice as loud as the music, but still very fuzzy. The music is too far in the background with an incredible lack of backbone for a hard rock release. Maybe the band had little control over that I can understand that. The music itself is not a whole better. There is just a complete lack of grooves and hooks. They hit upon some initial riffs to get going, but 15-30 seconds in the band as a whole seems overwhelmed by the task of having to create a 3-4 minutes song. So they stumble through to the bitter end dragging our poor eardrums down with them. Even if I heard this when it first came out in 1980 my view would not have been much favorable. Listen to this and then then listen to something like Iron Maiden's debut or Saxon's Wheels of steel. You would immediately be aware of just how much work Mass needed to get up to acceptable level. The re-issue includes one bonus track.