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ALBUM REVIEW: U.D.O. - The Wrong Side Of Midnight [EP] (2007)

Posted by admin on 3rd Feb 2010

Nobody gives the appurtenances to his admirers added than U.D.O. does. And he's acute about the way he does it. He follows the trend of giving admirers the individual adaptation (trimmed of 56 abnormal of music) and the aboriginal anthology version. And this individual is a abundant song. It starts with artificial crackles from an old almanac on a phonograph, goes into an ultra-cool, Middle-Eastern aural yodel (trust me, here, it's actual cool), and again churns into a crunching song with lots of absorption paid to solid accent chores, a anguish backbeat, and abundant agreeable ambient that you about feel like you're watching a movie. And the accent of the song is that vibrant: this is a abundant accession to U.D.O.'s oeuvre, a song about awakening in shadows, healing through getting broken apart, absolution the virus of the Beast by kissing adulteration aperture on papyrus. It's artistic and brutal. As to the two version, the abandoned abode I noticed a aberration is the abridgement of the anterior phonograph / keyboard music from the anthology track's 9 abnormal to the individual version's 4 seconds. Obviously they cut out 51 abnormal about else, and I'm bold it's done in agnate ways, but I listened and listened and couldn't amount it out. The next two songs are account the amount of this cd alone. And these are accurate non-album tracks. They're not on the Mastercutor cd from which the individual came, and there's no bound copy that includes them. For a lot of bands, this would be a business gimmick. For U.D.O., it's just authoritative abiding their admirers get their money's worth. These songs are just as acceptable if not stronger than a few of the songs on the Matercutor cd. Let me allocution about my favorite, "Man a King Ruler" (the fourth song on the cd) first. U.D.O. could play this reside and actually accompany the abode down. It's Dirkschneider's affronted acrimony at "f***ers and the scumbags dedicated by the law," "human parasites . . . with no added allowance for honor," and if Udo says, "Hey, you slime, you listen; I've absolutely had abundant now," you'll be voting him for the Man a King Ruler position so he can put a stop to the tricks these "f***ing perverts" play with their "seedy little . . . quests for domination" with "dirty angry hands." If he asks, "Who wants their protection?", you don't wish to be adopting your hand. This is one of the arch metal songs I've every heard, and I achievement the admirers accomplish it accepted so that this song isn't abandoned years from now. "Streets of Sin" is about as acceptable as "Man a King Ruler." I abhorrence to accumulate repeating the chat "brutal," but the songs on this cd bedrock like nobody's agitated business. "Streets" is about activity on some actual beggarly streets abounding of antagonism through dust and steel, assemblage warfare, and continuing calm through all the bullets that appear your way. It's harder to acquaint whether Udo is glorifying this or just absolution you apperceive what the beggarly streets are absolutely about. I'm animated the Russian (and Udo's Russian if flawless) adaptation of "Cry, Soldier, Cry" is actuality so that we can relax for a additional rather than active to our closets and putting the clips in our guns. It reminds us what U.D.O.'s accurate bulletin is. Wars and agitated afterlife consistently end in actual sad losses, and the abandoned way to authoritative any bad affair bigger is to accept a animal acknowledgment from the heart. As to packaging, you get a first-look, basic account of the Mastercutor and all lyrics. If that wasn't enough, Udo blesses you with the video of "The Wrong Side of Midnight." You can't exhausted this guy. It's because of being like this that he's got a hardcore army of fans. U.D.O.'s put out a adept mini-collection, here. I'm tempted to alarm it the best cd individual ever, but I will say that it's apparently the best of 2007 and the one to exhausted in 2008. But Udo will apparently do that himself.

TRACK LISTING
44 - U.D.O. - The Wrong Side Of Midnight [EP] (2007)

1 The Wrong Side of Midnight (Single Version) 03:59 187 kbps 5.37 MB
2 The Wrong Side of Midnight (Album Version) 04:55 187 kbps 6.62 MB
3 Streets of Sin 03:03 184 kbps 4.05 MB
4 Man A King Ruler 03:35 186 kbps 4.80 MB
5 Cry Soldier Cry (Russian Version) 05:51 177 kbps 7.45 MB