Year : 2022
Style : Heavy Metal , Parody Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 167 mb
Bio:
J.B.O. (James Blast Orchester) is a comedy heavy metal band from Erlangen, Germany. J.B.O. was founded in 1989 by Vito C. and Hannes "G.Laber" Holzmann, and is known for parodies of rock and pop songs.The band has written more of its own songs since 2000, but continues to produce parodies, which they refer to as Blöedsinn – an intentional misspelling of "Blödsinn," which means "nonsense" or "stupidity" in German.The original name was "James Blast Orchester" but they shortened this to J.B.O. in June 1996 after James Last threatened legal action.The Patrizier brewery of Nuremberg earlier threatened to sue J.B.O. for slander. The band have since changed references to "Patrizier Bräu" in their lyrics to "Pariser Bier" (Parisian beer).'Schmitti' and Holmer "a Bier" Graap, two of the founder members, left the band in 2000. They were replaced in 2001 by Ralph Bach and Wolfram Kellner. Kellner previously played in Fiddler's Green, which is alluded to in the song "Arschloch und Spaß dabei" ('Asshole and enjoying it'): "man sagt sogar, dass Wolfram früher Folk-Musik g'macht hätt" ("They even say that Wolfram used to play folk music").The Kitzmann brewery of Erlangen supports the band with gimmick products, and has been featured in the band's lyrics.The band celebrated its fifteenth birthday on July 31, 2004 with the slogan "30 Halbe!" ("30 halves" = 30 half-litre glasses of beer).The band still tours today, especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland."G. Laber" is a pun as it is pronounced the same as "Gelaber", the German for "drivel" or "twaddle".
Album:
The comedy kings of German metal return with a big bang and have once again brought a suitcase full of situational comedy. Funny references and great covers of timeless classics simply invite you to have fun with the music. "Planet Pink" will be released on March 18th , 2021.There is significantly less to worry about on the "Pink Planet" than on its blue-green sister: J.B.O. prove once again that they are still fresh as a daisy and on their toes despite their long band biography. Mischievously and with finesse they have once again taken a few classics from the shelf and blown away the dust.What to say but music is a global language and J.B.O. offer some fun-metal that will get your parties going. For more than 30 years they noised themselves thru a lot of cover songs, lyrics loaded with sexually innuendo and a very special kind of humor. J.B.O. is the most fun if you are native German language speaker or at least if you are familiar with German wordplay, ambiguous terms and sexual connotations. Having to create an album under the current and very strange pandemic, bands find different ways of working together. Instead of sharing a sofa this time, the songwriting process took place via phone between the two masterminds of the band, Vito C. and Hannes „G.Laber“ Holzmann (both vocals and guitar). The line-up of the band is completed with Ralph Bach (bass) and Wolfram Kellner (drums).The outcome is an album called ‘Planet Pink’. This may shall be our place of refuge from Covid19, ecological disasters and increasing beer prices(!!!). J.B.O. are inviting us to go on that trip if we think that earth might not be as cosy as it seems. And to start with it the album opening song is ‘Planet Pink’ – a cover version of the well-known (and in the metal scene probably well-hated) ‘Blue (da ba dee)’ from Eiffel65 released originally back in 1999. My instant and serious prayers were: please do not cover this video with pink aliens instead of blue ones! Another cover song on this album is well-known too: John Miles‘ ‘Music was my first love’ from 1976 was turned into ‘Metal was my first love’ by J.B.O. – and a metal song it is. The orchestral parts were replaced into a bandwidth of guitars with the help of Vito’s classic amps collection. And this song is in English language! Even sung with heavy Franconian accent you’ll be able to understand.Accompanying these covers are the self-composed J.BO. songs. ‘Einhorn’ (Unicorn) with clearly wonderfully ambiguous lyrics, and I guess I do not have to explain here in further detail. ‘Rockmusik hat mich versaut’ (Rock music ruined me) is a payoff towards haters of distorted guitars and rock music. Overall the album offers 11 songs and one track spoken track. The track ‘Expeditionen in Geistreich’ is a long lasting spoken wordplay in German language – that will definitely be only easy to understand for people with good German language skills and otherwise will come across as a list of bad jokes. Even if you skip that track, you’re still gonna have a good and fun party soundtrack with this album. Get your friends together have some drinks, fun and listen to J.B.O.’s ‘Planet Pink’ album. And for all German readers: Guter Sauf- und Party-Metal!
Line Up:
Vito C. - vocals , guitar
Hannes „G.Laber“ Holzmann - vocals , guitar
Ralph Bach - bass
Wolfram Kellner - drums
Tracklist:
01. Planet Pink
02. Rockmusik Hat Mich Versaut
03. Metal Was My First Love
04. Immer Noch Am Leben
05. Einhorn
06. Expeditionen Ins Geistreich
07. Klassiker!
08. Nicht Doof
09. Mi-Ma-Metal
10. Glaub Mir Lieber Nicht
11. Wir Kommen Alle In Die Hölle
12. Volks-Prog
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