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Some might remember the name from their release in the mid-90's which was called Burn Rubber, others might remember Casanova. Today's Demon Drive is something of both. Demon Drive these days is Michael Voss (ex-Mad Max, Casanova) and Jochen Mayer (bs; ex-Casanova) who kinda continue what Casanova was. Now joint by two new faces, guitarist Thorsten Koehne and drummer Frank Kraus. Also these days it's simple rock, no longer hard rock or whatever Casanova's music was called. And this kind of rock doesn't need a big, bombastic production and so they decided to do a production in the tradition of the 70's rock acts. But songs like Testify or Renegade don't need this big production, the songs stand on their own. With the Kiss cover Sure Know Something they chose a track which fits to this album and shows that this track doesn't need a big Kiss-style production!
Unusual is the other cover version, a track from 70's rock queen Suzie Quadro, a real rocking number. For that song Demon Drive got Lee Aaron who was very known in the 80's and later kinda disappeared. On this song Lee proof that she is still a hot singer.
For sure there will be someone who thinks that there is no more interest for this kind of music, but rock won't die! Also this album proofs that musical talent is what music keeps alive and that technique and production can't turn a bad song into a good one!
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