Crossplane
Masturboned

“We are Crossplane and we live for rock ‘n’ roll” they sing in the second tracks of this album. Crossplane is a German quartet and this album called Masturboned is their second album. It doesn’t really have that much of an inspiring artwork, and overall it looks like something standardised. This quartet started their work in 2009 and 2013 they released their first album and now it is time for their second.

An album where you cannot really avoid mentioning the band Motörhead because that is exactly how it sound – I would have thought this was a new Motörhead album had I not known it was by a band called Crossplane. The singer sounds like Lemmy and the music sounds like something pieced together by Motörhead, so originality doesn’t seem to be their thing. The album has sixteen tracks all sounding quite similar and with 48 minutes of playing time I think it might bore some of the listeners.

In fact the album isn’t really that good, the sound is ordinary and their style is copied from Motörhead who isn’t a particularly good band to begin with. So it is difficult to master up anything good to say about it because I was bored at the second song and it never took off anywhere on the album. The only thing I come to think of is: why not make something of their own? Motörhead isn’t that brilliant, nowhere near to be honest. I really believe that these guys need to find a style that is more original, you don’t need to be that different just so that the music can be recognised as something by Crossplane.

There are sixteen songs on the album and none of them stand out for me, it is just a long album to work through. A fine copy of what Motörhead would release if they had released a new album right now but not a good album. It is long, it is boring and it completely lacks novelty and I would have said the same if it was Motörhead that was the band behind this album.

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