Wow, right from the first GUNS OF GLORY song "El Savior," the rock 'n' roll kicks in hard! Wait, "wow" should be changed to "oh my," since the four guys come from the land of many lakes, swamps, and forests, with 86% of the land area covered in forest after most of the marshes were drained. In Finland, it is also so quiet and lonely that many counties have retained their individual dialects, and the nearest school can indeed be 100 km away. No wonder that the most famous music groups from "Suomi," which means "Finland" in German and "moorland" there, are all a bit quirky. Think of the LENINGRAD COWBOYS, LORDI, and ELÄKELÄISET. Now, with GUNS OF GLORY, a young band is stepping into the big footsteps of Norwegian (TURBONEGRO, GLUECIFER) and Swedish (HELLACOPTERS, BACKYARD BABIES) rock 'n' roll bands. And they are doing it successfully, even if they are "still" not quite fitting into the big shoes of their Scandinavian brothers, GUNS OF GLORY have definitely risen to the first league. The 9 songs hit you so hard that you lose your hearing and sight, your dancing feet are moving, and the whiskey glass cheers my throat, not just during the song "Whiskey Girls," and gets emptied quickly. What a fantastic debut album! It will be tough for the Finns to top the nearly 30-minute debut "On the Way to Sin City" with their second album someday. But for now, thumbs up and a full 10 points, if it weren't for the missing booklet. Because a CD without a booklet is like soccer without beer (so like tennis?!?!). Therefore, I would actually only give it 9 points for this great album! But I know the cover, and it is so rock 'n' roll that I will just assume that the rest of the booklet is just as good.
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