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The advertisement of the departure of singer JB party to develop his own group GRAND MAGUS was a reason for concern for the fans of the group of Michael AMOTT. The arrival coming from FIREWIND of Greek Apollo PAPATHANASIO could legitimately reinforce the expectancy.

the newcomer practises a less rough, less powerful, but more cordial register vocal and more varied than his predecessor. That falls well because the heart thinking from the group, guitarist Michael AMOTT, continuous to make progress this album project after album, moving away it gradually from influences Stoner and Doom of the beginnings. The governing idea seems to be to take again on its account heritage Hard Rock of the Seventies (even Rock since the Sixties) and to inject a treatment Metal to him one cannot modern any more. The

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS do not disavow anything the bases Metal fundamentally: the riffs of Lost In Yesterday feel the Doom of CANDLEMASS with full nose, those of The Chaos Of Rebirth and from the forgeries live We Are Free come from the workshop of lord IOMMI (in the second case, it is even about a recycling of Hole In The Sky of BLACK SABBATH). But the aspects concerned with the Hard Rock take the top, with for godfathers RAINBOW, WHITESNAKE, UFO and SCORPIONS. The soli of guitar brilliant, clear, are very structured, sometimes carrying a feeling bluesy (the shades ofUli Jon ROTH and BLACKMORE plane, the concision in more). The lines of song are admirably built, energy being with the service of the melody. The rhythmic ones are all at the same time extremely solid, rich in details and concerned of groover when it is needed. One can evoke one WHITESNAKE of before 1987 which would have to remain a little too near and too a long time nearly Tchernobyl.

Twice, the group crosses the borders of saturation to approach calmer registers, more moderate: Spirit Of The Wind is a kind of splendid trip space with the hypnotic melody reason, with a touching vocal service ofApollo PAPATHANASIO ; ballade Bluesy with piano The Road Less Travelled more pains to convince, at the same time too larmoyante and weighed down by invading arrangements.

For the good mouth, let us note Return To Zero, introduction to the keyboards of Per WIBERG, réminiscente of that of the Tarot Woman of RAINBOW, as well as the remarkable resumption of the Time To Live of URIAH HEEP (of album Salisbury in 1971).

Mine of nothing, that made already twice that the SPIRITUAL BEGGARS face a departure of singer (Spice then JB) with a confusing brilliance and a class. With the shelter of the modes and vaults, Return To Zero is a superb album, which makes an insane good.

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