Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus

Nuclear Blast
Published January 29, 2009  by Keith Carman in Record Reviews

Two decades after North America realized it was a bad idea, Europe is finally poised for its own glam-metal invasion, and German power-metal/hard-rock outfit Edguy are the leaders of the pack. Shifting even further from their original metal roots into something closer to a bastardized amalgam of straight-up hard rock and ’80s hair-metal, they still aren’t exactly waving the flag for hair farmers on the darker end of the metallic spectrum. On the band’s eighth album Tinnitus Sanctus, though, their move into musical moderation is even more pronounced. From the choruses of “Sex Fire Religion” to the simplistic chug of “Ministry of Saints,” the obvious ballad “Thorn Without a Rose” and the operatic structure of “The Pride of Creation,” Edguy embraces saccharine, upbeat post-Van Halen Diamond Dave cock rock sans false bravado. It’s actually quite endearing and undeniably catchy, in a guilty pleasure sort of way, at least for anyone who did away with their Y&T albums at the turn of the last decade. Unpretentious in its modestly misguided approach, Tinnitus Sanctus deconstructs Edguy’s power-metal past but builds a stronger hard-rock foundation in the process.



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