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░ ██ ██ Artist: Breaker ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Dead Rider █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2009 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2017-06-13 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Heavy Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Cult Metal Classics ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Breaker was a rather obscure German heavy metal █
█ band whose near claim to fame would be that it █
█ once involved several members of the better known █
█ thrash act Accuºer, itself lost in the shuffle of █
█ its far more talented contemporaries. They formed █
█ in 1983, put out this one album with a cheesy █
█ robot driving a motorcycle through some flimsy █
█ wall, and couldn't even choose a good logo or █
█ title font for said album. Okay, maybe the wall █
█ was supposed to be made of metal, as we can tell █
█ from some of the dislodged panels. So a fucking █
█ robot drives a motorcycle through a barrier of █
█ sheet metal. Fantastic. I am simultaneously █
█ impressed and intimidated. █
█ Now, the music is not entirely atrocious, with a █
█ filthy appeal to it that might thrill seekers of █
█ the first two Running Wild records, or late 70s to █
█ mid 80s sounds by either Judas Priest or Accept. █
█ Eberhard Weyel has a certain level of grit to his █
█ vocals that served him reasonably well in both █
█ this band and his later thrashing, and the band █
█ simply plug in and churn out some vicious, bitter █
█ material that certainly pushes the speed limit for █
█ Germany's traditional, NWOBHM-derived bands. Of █
█ course, by 1985 we had artists like Destruction, █
█ Sodom and Kreator forcing these boundaries with █
█ far greater force, so you're unlikely to hear Dead █
█ Rider and be impressed by the violence on hand. █
█ But the faster the better for this Breaker, as █
█ proven in the savage "Rapist Killer", where █
█ Weyel's vocals take on a tone similar to Frank █
█ Knight on the later X-Wild records. The guitars █
█ simply surge through the almost punk-dominated █
█ chords, the leads blaze across the bridge and you █
█ feel like you just had your ass stomped outside █
█ some German pit stop. "Shout Out Loud" is pretty █
█ sloppy, but the Running Wild-like chords and the █
█ vicious Weyel create enough fun to weave through a █
█ junkyard like a pack of rats with tire irons, █
█ smashing every bit of glass that remains intact. █
█ Likewise, "Lucifer's Dream" has some sinister, █
█ cruel guitar riffs that grate over rather █
█ laissez-faire, but bad ass cruising drum beat. █
█ You've also got a fairly typical lament of the █
█ finer sex in "Cold hearted woman", though this is █
█ more of a Sunset Strip hard rock tune with a more █
█ metallic twist; and another high speed rager in █
█ "Born to Rock". █
█ A few of the more controlled, mid to slow paced █
█ tracks like "Together We Are Strong" and "Dead █
█ Rider" don't seem to be firing on so many █
█ cylinders, and the result is that the album seems █
█ to wax and wane the listener's level of █
█ excitement. The vocals simply can't carry all the █
█ riffs, and while a few are exciting in the context █
█ of their songs, there are preciously few that █
█ evince more than a short-term spark of memory. █
█ Like so many albums of the day, it can't figure █
█ out if it wants to be outrageous hard rock in the █
█ Twisted Sister vein, or pure German speed and █
█ fury. Had they gone all out with the latter, they █
█ could have developed a truly hammering, dangerous █
█ and fun sound. But it just wasn't to be, and we're █
█ left with this almost completely forgotten legacy █
█ in the dust by the highway, the rust flecked off █
█ robot and motorcycle alike as it waits the final █
█ corrosion to wipe it completely from existence. █
█ █
█ This reissue includes the very first "Speed Metal █
█ Demo" by Accuser from 1986 as bonus tracks. █
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░ 1. Breaker - Run For Your Life 4:29 ░
░ 2. Breaker - Bork to Rock 4:45 ░
░ 3. Breaker - Dead Rider 3:17 ░
░ 4. Breaker - Shout Out Loud 3:00 ░
░ 5. Breaker - Cold Hearted Woman 4:13 ░
░ 6. Breaker - Rapist Killer 3:12 ░
░ 7. Breaker - Street Fighter 3:47 ░
░ 8. Breaker - Lucifer's Dream 3:57 ░
░ 9. Breaker - Out of Control 3:42 ░
░ 10. Breaker - Together We are Strong 5:22 ░
░ 11. Accuser - Evil Liar (Bonus Track) 6:00 ░
░ 12. Accuser - Down by Law (Bonus Track) 7:22 ░
░ 13. Accuser - Sreaming for Guilt (Bonus 4:05 ░
░ Track) ░
░ 14. Accuser - Law of War (Bonus Track) 4:12 ░
░ 61:23 ░
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