Nick Douglas
Regenerations

He looks menacing, that guy on the artwork for this album – dark and menacing it looks and it doesn’t really represent what we get to hear on the album. Probably a representation of Nick Douglas who is probably best known for his bass playing with Doro but he has also been touring with Blaze and played on an album with Chris Caffery a guy who’s albums aren’t that dissimilar from what we get to hear from Nick Douglas on this album. Nick does most of the work on this album on the instruments and everything but he has some guests on his side as well. It is his second album following a debut that was released many years ago, but what can we say about this new album then?

Modern and contemporary hardrock is what we get to hear when we play this album, good production and I think Nick does well with the vocals. His female guest vocalists sing pretty well too, and it is an easily accessible album that would probably go down well with a wide audience. A pretty inoffensive album in eleven tracks and enough variation to keep the playing time from feeling too long, but it is also rather polished and some will argue that it should have been a little edgier. I certainly think that it could have been, and while one that subject I also think that it is a tad on the unoriginal side.

It is an easy album to like and to take to, I think almost anyone who hears it will like it. I think that it is good, the songs are good and I think the sound is good and as I stated it is easy to like. But I also think that it is an album that errs on the side of caution, that could, and should have been a lot more daring. It should have been edgier, and a bit rougher around the edges. I think Nick spent too much time polishing his songs that he forgot what they meant, or perhaps he didn’t but it sort of sounds like it. Perhaps one reason for this is the lack of a standout hit song, all the songs have hit-potential of sorts but none of them really feel like a hit song.

In the end I think there are better choices to spend your record money on, although I also think that anyone who spends his or her record money on this album won’t be disappointed. Nick Douglas has put together a good album; a solid one that most people who hear it will be positive towards but I doubt it will win him any die hard fans. So it may be good but I cannot claim that it makes any significant impression on me.

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