Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Impellitteri Title: Pedal to the Metal Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Steamhammer Europe Release Date: 3/7/2005 Album Type: Import Genres: Pop, Rock, Metal Style: Rock Guitarists Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 693723991429 |
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The new Impelliteri release, Pedal To The Metal, is the first to feature vocalist Curtis Skelton. Guitar wizard Chris Impelliteri?s band, which has been active since the mid-Eighties, was manned by US shouter Rob Rock for ... more » |
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Album Description The new Impelliteri release, Pedal To The Metal, is the first to feature vocalist Curtis Skelton. Guitar wizard Chris Impelliteri?s band, which has been active since the mid-Eighties, was manned by US shouter Rob Rock for well over ten years and, for a short time, even fronted by former Rainbow vocalist Graham Bonnet. "At the time I thought it would be interesting to find out how a very young band sounds with an established hard rock vocalist," Chris Impelliteri recalls. "I still consider this period as our attempt to come across as a juvenile Rainbow." The new result is definitely well worth listening to. Impellitteri ? featuring a line-up consisting of Chris Impellitteri (guitar), Curtis Skelton (vocals), James Amelio Pulli (Bass), and Glen Sobel (drums) have come up with ten versatile tracks on the interface between US metal and European hard rock. Impressed with Chris' production technique (he produced all the previous Impellitteri albums), CBS-Sony invited him to open it's 20th anniversary party at the 65,000 seat Tokyo Dome. Now get ready to put the Pedal To The METAL!!! Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsLike no other musician - by a new Impelliteri fan D. Guilbert | Winnemucca NV USA | 03/02/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "Chris is like noone else you've ever listened to. He is serious about having fun with his music. One reviewer who I read regularly said that this album seems to be about entertaining himself and his fans, and has no interest in gaining new ones. He also said that this is a CD that you will either get or not, and that there isn't going to be a lot of middle ground. Growth? This is my first Impelliteri CD (give me a couple weeks though), so I don't know about that. Please note that In Flames and Opeth are the only two acts that I've ever watched grow successfully, and contrasting their "growth" to that of Metallica leaves me unsure what precisely the word means.
Listening to this album it feels like Chris took what he's been hearing on the radio and made a song like it, only better. Some of it is tribute, some of it is satire, and some of it comes close to being a ripoff of other works. This is almost like a "Best of metal" with Impelliteri's own indelible stamp on it. You'll hear old school influences like Priest, Pantera, and there was a moment when I'd have sworn I heard echos of Europe (The Final Countdown) in there somewhere. You'll hear things that make you think of Blind Guardian, and Hammerfall. Punk will call to mind the work of Fred Durst, but this is clearly a sendup as well as a statement that "rap metal doesn't have to suck". As to vocals, Curtis is no Graham, but then who is? Yet Curtis serves the music well, and there are songs here that Graham might have seemed out of place on - Punk springs instantly to mind in that regard. As to drumming and bass, all I can say so far is that I've found no seams on this disc. When you listen to this album, remember one thing: music can be fun, even while being the other things that you want it to be. This is metal, no question, and there is no shortage of rage on this CD, if you choose to tap into it. Yet Chris doesn't force you to do so. It is there if you want it. This album is all over the map. As a listener, I find myself gasping for breath as I try to keep up with the changes, the genre-hopping, and the sheer excitement of it all. Impelliteri is a versatile song-writer on top of being a stunning guitar player, and nowhere is that more obvious than on Pedal to the Metal." |
