Monday, December 24, 2012

U.D.O. - The Wrong Side Of Midnight (2007) [Single]

 
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Artist : U.D.O.
Artist Origin : Germany
Release Title : The Wrong Side Of Midnight [Single]
Release Year : 2007
Artist Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320
Download : Uppit 
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U.D.O. follows the trend of giving fans the single version (trimmed of 56 seconds of music) and the original album version. And this single is a great song. It starts with plastic crackles from an old record on a phonograph, goes into an ultra-cool, Middle-Eastern sounding yodel (trust me, here, it's very cool), and then churns into a crunching song with lots of attention paid to solid rhythm chores, a pounding backbeat, and enough musical ambience that you almost feel like you're watching a movie. And the tone of the song is that vibrant: this is a great addition to U.D.O.'s oeuvre, a song about resurrection in shadows, healing through being torn apart, releasing the virus of the Beast by kissing poison lips on papyrus. It's imaginative and brutal. As to the two version, the only place I noticed a difference is the shortening of the introductory phonograph / keyboard music from the album track's 9 seconds to the single version's 4 seconds. Obviously they cut out 51 seconds somewhere else, and I'm assuming it's done in similar ways, but I listened and listened and couldn't figure it out. The next two songs are worth the price of this cd alone. And these are true non-album tracks. They're not on the Mastercutor cd from which the single came, and there's no limited edition that includes them. For a lot of bands, this would be a marketing gimmick. For U.D.O., it's just making sure their fans get their money's worth. These songs are just as good if not stronger than a few of the songs on the Matercutor cd.

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