Mass-Swiss Connection

SPV

1981/2010

What a difference a year made. I don't what the guys in Mass did in between 1980's "Angel Power", but it sure made a difference. They not only bought a clue, but they figured out their musical direction, how to create strong grooves, how to very styles and their production values inproved by about 60%. Plus they were going to get even a little better after this album. Still I cannot get over the leap they made on this album. It's not great as they still could use some breaks in the repetition and few more hard hitting moments. Still they figured out so many things and turned out albums where every song is at least decent. That is indeed reason for some sort of celebration considering I could barely struggle through "Angel Power" and it's almost complete lack of anything to latch onto. Still this German band were somewhat behind the times compared to what was going on with the top NWOBHM acts. In fact the music here has a little more in common with late 70's hard rock than with other early 80's acts. The most important facts are that Mass managed to improve drastically and lay down some catchy hard rock tracks. If you are interested in checking this band out then I would definitely skip Angel Power and go to this release instead.