Mentalist – Earthbreaker

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• Band:
  Mentalist
• Duration: 00:51:52
• Available from: 11/04/2025
• Label:

• Pride & Joy Music

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Mentalists are a team born in 2018 from the union of guitarists Peter Moog and Kai Stringer, the drummer Thomen Stauch – already known for having played in the Blind Guardian – and the singer Rob Lundgren. The project, born with the idea of ​​proposing a Teutonic Power Metal (in the style of Krefeld's Bards or Avanthesia, so to speak) under the aegis of the German label Pride & Joy Music.
“Earthbreaker” is the latest record work of a rather prolific band-considering that in about seven years of activity it has managed to give birth to four full-length-and always very focused on current issues such as the concept of power, the distribution of global wealth, the pollution of the planet Earth or the freedom of expression.
Listening to the album, and making a quick musical summary of previous works, it is immediately clear that the sounds are the classics of the Power Metal world at the turn of the nineties and 2000s; We therefore have the typical acute of the singer Lundgren, supported by tight batteries that are the basis of the most iconic metal ridges-this rhythmic structure, this, widely used in pieces such as the title-track or “A New World”. Songs like “Millions of Heros” instead go to emphasize the most symphonic side of the Power world, through keyboards and piano rugs that accompany what seems to be a growing rock ballad. Also interesting “Monkey King”, which focuses on the concept of money and the importance that this covers in our society: the song sounds like a piece that could have come out of a release of the first aragras and gives one of the most cantable refrains of the entire album, surrounded by a single guitar to the fulmicotone, as technical as it is classic and close to the purely Power styles; Perhaps it is the only really noteworthy piece within a record work that we would define, euphemistically, not very inspired.
The lack of creative thrust and inspiration is particularly painful if we consider that the parts of the keyboard and bass have been played by personalities of character such as the Kamelot keyboard player, Oliver Palotai and the bassist Mike Leponda of the Symphony X, specially invited as the band supporters: it is in fact quite strange to see level musicians like these relegates to make the 'task at home and limited To play simply their part, without having the opportunity to release their creativity, almost like wanting to use the names of these artists to the mere end of wetting with a little light reflected by much more popular bands. It would have been wise – in our opinion – to exploit these level artists to enrich the sound pantone, bringing inside “Earthbreaker” of the influences far from the world of mentalists but able to enrich their final features.
The latest release of the mentalists is an album that is missing the salt of creativity, an increasingly used condiment in a music industry where the quantity is often preferred to quality.
To combine the damage to the mockery, such a realization leaves an even worse flavor in the mouth of a listener who, on the one hand, perceives the undeniable technical capacity of a group made up of valid professionals, produced and recorded by people who know how to work behind a mixer, while on the other he finds himself in his hands a merely sufficient album from the compositional side.

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