Year : 2002
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 144 mb
Bio:
The Company of Snakes were an English rock band formed in 1998, by former members of the English rock band Whitesnake who were also members of The Snakes.They released two albums before morphing into M3 during 2004.The Company of Snakes was formed by former Whitesnake guitarists Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody after the demise of its predecessor The Snakes. The band was completed by Black Sabbath and Whitesnake bassist Neil Murray, drummer John Lingwood from Manfred Mann's Earth Band and vocalist Robert Hart from Bad Company and later British singer Gary Barden. After adding keyboardist Don Airey from Rainbow, the band went on tour, playing concerts almost completely consisting of old Whitesnake songs. Singer Barden left the band soon afterwards and was replaced by Swedish vocalist and Snakes in Paradise frontman Stefan Berggren. They toured throughout their history and released the live album Here They Go Again: the show was still sung by Barden, but his lead vocals were deleted and replaced in the studio by Berggren (2001).They were joined in Germany, during their promotional tour for this album by Humble Pie, re-formed by Jerry Shirley and promoting tracks from their album Back on Track. The band recorded one studio album Burst The Bubble (2002) which was recorded after Don Airey had left the band. Berggren left soon after Airey's departure and the remaining band members morphed into M3. After that, Micky Moody and Neil Murray went on to form Snakecharmer.
Album:
Featuring former Whitesnake members Bernie Marsden, Micky Moody and Neil Murray, plus drummer John Lingwood and aided by the strong & inspired vocals of Swedish vocalist Stefan Berggren, THE COMPANY OF SNAKES created some delicious rocking music on this album “Burst The Bubble“.Formed in 1998, a year earlier a previous version of the group was known as The Snakes with a then-unknown Jorn Lande on vocals. THE COMPANY OF SNAKES debut CD mostly featured Whitesnake songs, but “Burst The Bubble” consists of original material, still full on smokey blues and rock’n’roll that stands proudly aside ‘Ready and Willing’ or ‘Lovehunter’.We just love this album. With their timeless hard rock Made in Britain that is based on blues n’ boogie, The Company Of Snakes reduce possible arguments about trends and fashions to absurdity, while proving that there will always be an audience for their enjoyable brand of classic rock.As you might expect for a band that featured three of Whitesnake’s original members and played virtually nothing but early Whitesnake songs in concert, this album sounds like classic Whitesnake.There’s some AOR thrown in for good measure (“What Love Can Do”, “Hurricane”) but more or less ‘Burst The Bubble’ displays much of the same bluesy hard rock that the early Whitesnake albums did – all with a warm sound production.There’s a lot of charm in “Little Miss Happiness”, “Labour of Love” is a bluesy rocker with the same excellent vocal arrangements we got used to listening to David Coverdale back in the mid 1970’s, then “Ride, Ride, Ride” takes you back to 1980.“Back to the Blues” – like the title implies it’s a blues based rock song. We like the fact that Berggren keep his singing rather low, and not try to impress us with the “high pitch screams” some other vocalists seem to think is the main task for this type of songs.If you sit around complaining about the current state of music and wonder where all the good times have gone, “Burst The Bubble” is the answer.
Line Up:
Stefan Berggren – Vocals
Bernie Marsden – Guitar - See also: ex-Alaska, ex-Whitesnake
Micky Moody – Guitar
Neil Murray – Bass
John Lingwood – Drums
Production:
Artwork By – Paul Raymond Gregory / Studio 54
Artwork By [Design] – Susanne Hentschel (SPV Graphics)
Mastered By – Rainer Holst
Mixed By – Herman Frank
Other [Studio Equipment] – Backline Rental Service Hannover
Photography – Nicola Rübenberg
Producer – Bernie Marsden, Rainer Hänsel
Recorded By – Nikolo Kotzev
Recorded and mixed at: KARO Studios, Brackel / Hamburg, Germany. Mastered at Staccato Studio
Tracklist:
01. Ayresome Park
02. Labour Of Love
03. Ride, Ride, Ride / Run, Run, Run
04. Burst The Bubble
05. Sacrificial Feelings
06. What Love Can Do
07. Little Miss Happiness
08. Hurricane
09. Kinda Wish You Would
10. Days To Remember
11. Back To The Blues
12. All Dressed Up
13. Can’t Go Back
14. She
15. Ayresome Park – Reprise
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