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Are these still THE CREEPSHOW playing together on “Life after Death“?
This was the question I asked myself when I received the album.
Do I even want to listen to it?
The concerts I had seen from the band are still fresh in my mind. I found their previous albums consistently good to very good. Isn’t the singing what represents a band? And Sarah could sing, my God!
The first time I listened, I was very skeptical and probably not fair to the band. After the second, third, fourth…x-th time, I must say, the band has created something truly great. THE CREEPSHOW still sounds like THE CREEPSHOW!
Kenda’s voice and singing style often resemble Sarah’s. This way, old fans like me are welcomed back. No prisoners are taken with the eleven songs on the album.
The band will surely gain new fans with this album as well.
They achieve this in a balancing act between their previous style, as heard in songs like “The Devil´s Son“, “Take it away“ or the title track “Life after Death“ (these songs will fill the pit with psychos of all colors, it’s going to be wild!)
and songs like “Born to Lose“ (Rock’n’Roll, 80s rock, and punk-a-billy in one song) or “Last Call“ (with trumpets!) that one wouldn’t expect from the Canadians.
It’s still 100% THE CREEPSHOW!
Maybe some find there are too many choruses, perhaps too many breaks, but I consider that part of their development. Wanting to hear the same thing all the time is boring in the long run, and then I don’t need a new album.
With “Life after Death“, THE CREEPSHOW shows that despite the painful departures, they can still do one thing: play their own style, and it’s still damn awesome!
I would even call this record the second-best album of the band, after the brilliant album “Run for your Life“.
