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Last Updated on 09:12 PM by Giorgos Tsekas
Genre: Hard Rock/AOR
Country: U.K.
Label: SPV/Steamhammer
Year: 2015
A live album usually works as a best-of release or a printed mapping of a specific period of a band. Especially when the group has a momentum or a really cool studio album that has been released recently, it is a rather common move to cut a live album to keep its name warm in the market. So these Brummies ain’t no fools and no strangers to music industry or live album releases (this is the ninth live album for Magnum) and since their last effort “Escape From The Shadow Garden” was a great album, it was perfect timing for “Escape from the Shadow Garden: Live 2014”.
The first 6 tracks are taken from Magnum’s last three studio albums showing a band confident with its fresh material, opening with ‘Live till you Die’, a born-to-be a classic song indeed. Personally speaking, I liked the pompous “Freedom Day”, as well, taken from 2011’s “The Visitation” and “Blood Red Laughter” from 2013’s “On the 13th Day”. On the second half of the set Magnum deliver the old classics that everyone expects to hear in a set list from these old chaps. “How Far Jerusalem,” “All England’s Eyes” and “Vigilante Man” are legendary compositions of pure melodic hard rock that you never get tired to hear. Bob Catley is in great form and, while the whole band is in great shape too, it’s obvious that this is (why not) a must buy release for all Magnum friends and a great opportunity to start searching for their music, if you are a friend of quality and melodic based music, and you haven’t done it already.
4/6
