Review Summary: Ryan Roxie's renewed Hard Rock of 80s. The best Hard Rock album of the year in KISS, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick style. Feel the fire of ROCK!
Just imagine – you're an oldschool rocker really disappointed with the modern rock n roll. You’re a big KISS, Alice Cooper and Cheap Trick fan. Once you come to a music store and try to find something worthwhile. You enter a “hard n heavy” section and firstly pay attention to new records. You are sick and tired of posers, one-day bands and other fakes but suddenly your eyes fastened upon the debut record of Sweden hard rock band Casablanca “Apocalyptic Youth”. Of course, you’ve heard about those guys. Creative design of the album made in a ‘cartoon’ style and the sharp & modern band logo finally disarm you. You start dream about Casablanca and finally buy the album. After a few hours the main track “Apocalyptic Youth” shatters the walls of your house with cracking & smashing noises! Your neighbors are shocked but it’s all right. Rock N Roll is only for big guns. And Casablanca is just what the love doctor ordered for you!
There are four fabulous guys and one girl (on the drums – Josephine Forsman) standing before you on the cover of the record. Among them you can see one of the most charismatic and talented guitar players ever. Guess who? Exactly. I’m talking about Ryan Roxie. He has been playing with Alice Cooper (R has recently joined Coop again, welcome back!), Gilby Clarke, Slash, UDO and with many other Monsters of Rock. His melodic and outstanding solos, bad guy image and a stupendous manner of playing on stage make him the one and only. Charming Ryan Roxie with a golden heart and a metal pick will show you how to feel the fire of rock!
Casablanca is not the first Roxie’s project. In 2006 he left Alice Cooper band and moved from sunshine California to frosty Stockholm and completely jumped into his solo career. He has recordered two albums with ROXIE 77 and launched his own TV programme “Big Rock show with Ryan Roxie”. That man doesn’t like do nothing. He is always in a process of making good music for the right people.
In 2010 Roxie formed Casablanca and now we can finally enjoy the noise. Their debut record is so far radiates such positive energy of old hard rock that it’s hard to believe that the album came out in 2012 and not in sweet 1989. We can feel KISS and Cheap Trick influences on “Apocalyptic youth”. Extremely melodic solos on “Deliberately wasted”, luring and vibrant vocal, stunning refrains and, of course, a painfully touching ballad “The Juggler” – everything is on the highest level! This is the music to wake up the dead!
Look forward to listening to “Apocalyptic Youth” as many times in a row as possible every time getting another portion of positive vibes from Roxie and Co. Long live Rock N Roll!
