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White Lion - Fight to Survive Audio CD

A fair review of the White Lion "Fight to Survive" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all White Lion reviews here, or go back to the White Lion tabs.

White Lion Band: White Lion
Title: Fight to Survive
Rating:
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Broken Heart 2: Cherokee 3: Fight to Survive 4: Where Do We Run 5: In the City 6: All the Fallen Men 7: All Burn in Hell 8: Kid of 1000 Faces 9: Salvador 10: Road to Valhalla

Eternal Great!


. I hope this is played at my funeral---at least Fight to Survive, El Salvador, and then All Burn in Hell, in that order.


A LOST GEM
I remember first hearing El Salvador on the radio and going "who the hell is that"? I went out and got the album which I still have on vinyl. I don't know if I would call this a metal album but what I will call it is very good. Another track I fell in love with is All The Fallen Men.
All in all this is solid album with some great guitar work from Mr. Bratta. A worthy addition to any hard rock collection.
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An album one has to respect.
Originally released in 1984 the recording process of this album was financed by "Electra Records", a company which at the time had one power seller under the name of "Motley Crue". This is the debut album by renowned American glam metal band "White Lion". However just when the album was completed "Electra" dropped the band replacing them with an up and coming quartet known as "Dokken". Never the less "JVC" showed great interest in White Lion and the album was released in Japan.
Musically this album goes way beyond the glam metal sound of its successor "Pride". This is hard rock or classic metal as some would like to refer to; No "hair metal" hits here, rather solid rock hymns. Mike Tramp's music pays a tribute to the modern urban life with songs such as "In the City" and the title track. In addition, tunes such as "Cherokee" and "All the fallen men" stand as homage to the predecessors and heroes of the American nation.

Nothing glamorous, nothing pretentious here; overall a very dark, often mid tempo album whose choruses deliver the pain, agony and self examination of the average modern citizen.
Weather you prefer "poser rock" or straight forward "heavy metal" you can invest confidently on this release; this could possibly be the most substantial American hard rock album of the 80s.

It is quite ironic the least successful release in White Lion's multi-platinum history stands out as their most diachronic and inspirational album.
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Metal Truly Survives Through Epic Albums Like This One
One of the bands that truly added something new and vibrant to the metal scene was White Lion. The year was 1985, heavy metal was on a major up-swing, and many, many bands came out of the woodwork to get a piece of the pie. Led by Mike Tramp's melodious and gritty, pretty-boy-street-kid vocals and Vito Bratta's amazingly talented, virtuoso guitar wizardry, White Lion came on fast and rose to popularity quickly. They were young and spoke to a youthful crowd but also had a heavy stock of mature songs that were focused on everything from love to war to social problems and they even proved ahead of their time by giving credence to the Germanic and Norse myth-ethos that has now turned into a major musical genre all its own. Every pre- and post-adolescent kid really into the metal scene rocked to the title song and whole-heartedly bought into the guts and glory of fighting to survive (even if it was only through the hallways of your local middle school). Today this album still carries its weight muscle-bound. Songs like "Fight to Survive," "All the Fallen Men," "All Burn in Hell," and "El Salvador" stand up to any of the biggest bands' hardcore hits. What I especially appreciate about this cd is the fact that there's not one throwaway song on it. Vito Bratta has frills and sidebars and fret-fireworks in every single song. His opening trills on "Fight to Survive" and his Spanish guitar intro to "El Salvador" make metal shredders go nuts every time they hear them, whether for the first or hundredth time. The two ballads ("In the City" and "The Road to Valhalla") are hard rock worthy, close to epic. The other pop-metal songs ("Cherokee," "Where Do We Run," and "Kid of 1000 Faces") probably don't deserve to be called such since they're honed to such a sharp edge. Although Hauke's production (probably admittedly with limited funds) caused the band to always desire re-recording (a much better sound quality for three of these songs can be found on Rhino Records' _White Lion: The Definitive Rock Collection_), the rhythm guitar crunch that came out of it was part of what kept them from sounding like everyone else playing metal at the time. And as camp as it might look now, every kid who saw the seemingly dead metal warrior's body draped over the feet of a statuesque (literally) and brave-sorrowing lion got chills up his spine. Mike Tramp has currently reformed WL, but he's the only original in the band. If you want the best of the best of White Lion, or just some awesome early 80s metal, get this one. And get it now. It's getting harder and harder to find. One thing is for sure: If you're a heavy metal fan and miss this one, you've let a gem fall from your grasp.
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Metal Truly Survives Through Epic Albums Like This One
One of the bands that truly added something new and vibrant to the metal scene was White Lion. The year was 1985, heavy metal was on a major up-swing, and many, many bands came out of the woodwork to get a piece of the pie. Led by Mike Tramp's melodious and gritty, pretty-boy-street-kid vocals and Vito Bratta's amazingly talented, virtuoso guitar wizardry, White Lion came on fast and rose to popularity quickly. They were young and spoke to a youthful crowd but also had a heavy stock of mature songs that were focused on everything from love to war to social problems and they even proved ahead of their time by giving credence to the Germanic and Norse myth-ethos that has now turned into a major musical genre all its own. Every pre- and post-adolescent kid really into the metal scene rocked to the title song and whole-heartedly bought into the guts and glory of fighting to survive (even if it was only through the hallways of your local middle school). Today this album still carries its weight muscle-bound. Songs like "Fight to Survive," "All the Fallen Men," "All Burn in Hell," and "El Salvador" stand up to any of the biggest bands' hardcore hits. What I especially appreciate about this cd is the fact that there's not one throwaway song on it. Vito Bratta has frills and sidebars and fret-fireworks in every single song. His opening trills on "Fight to Survive" and his Spanish guitar intro to "El Salvador" make metal shredders go nuts every time they hear them, whether for the first or hundredth time. The two ballads ("In the City" and "The Road to Valhalla") are hard rock worthy, close to epic. The other pop-metal songs ("Cherokee," "Where Do We Run," and "Kid of 1000 Faces") probably don't deserve to be called such since they're honed to such a sharp edge. Although Hauke's production (probably admittedly with limited funds) caused the band to always desire re-recording (a much better sound quality for three of these songs can be found on Rhino Records' _White Lion: The Definitive Rock Collection_), the rhythm guitar crunch that came out of it was part of what kept them from sounding like everyone else playing metal at the time. And as camp as it might look now, every kid who saw the seemingly dead metal warrior's body draped over the feet of a statuesque (literally) and brave-sorrowing lion got chills up his spine. Mike Tramp has currently reformed WL, but he's the only original in the band. If you want the best of the best of White Lion, or just some awesome early 80s metal, get this one. And get it now. It's getting harder and harder to find. One thing is for sure: If you're a heavy metal fan and miss this one, you've let a gem fall from your grasp.
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