Nightmare

You get a sense of Air-Raid's music by just looking at the EP's cover: tight jeans, the -then so popular- heavy metal mullet (especially in Germany) and their heavy metal t-shirts. Yeap, you've guessed it, they play traditional heavy metal, like you would expect with any heavy metal band during the eighties.

The EP contains two songs: Nightmare and Metallic Wings, with Nightmare being far superior to Metallic Wings. Both of the songs are well structured, with decent rhythms, sound and vocals. But the decency is all you get, since it sounds like a bunch of friends got together, jammed, the result was good and so they decided to record their jamming session in an EP. It sounds like this work was recorded more for fun than for anything else.

Musically they are good, but not something extraordinary. All the instruments can be heard clearly, the production is good (a nice surprise is that the bass gives a lot of volume to this recording), the use of keyboards is also good (and I think it fits to the structure of both songs) without tiring you, and you also get the traditional solos, so the end result is ok. But this is where it ends. What we have here is an ok EP, not something extraordinary.

So, should you get this EP? Well, if you find it cheap enough (one or two euros), do get it. If you're looking for obscure heavy metal bands out there, do get it. If you are a collector and you have every work of every other good band out there, do get it. Otherwise you're better off getting something else like Puls's "Strhaná tvář".

You will enjoy this EP but I don't think it will stick on your turntable for ever.