Band : Kruk
Album title : It Will Not Come Back
Label : Metal Mind Productions
Distributor : Bertus
Release Date : 12/07/2011
Release : CD + DVD

Kruk, I’ve got no idea what it stands for, since I don’t understand Polish, once started as a cover band, but has now released it’s second album ‘It Will not come back’.    I didn’t get the chance to hear their first album, but upon listening to this album, it’s clear what their influences were.  Vintage Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin are not far away.

If, like me, you just love the sound of those old Hammond organs then this group/album surely is something for you.  Besides those lovely organ sounds, the guitars by Piotr Brzychcy are also to be reckoned with.  He reminds me a bit of Ritchie Blackmore that’s how good he is.

As for the critics who state that the singer is gawkysh and lacks charisma, that may be the case, if your judgment is made solely by watching the DVD, but the same can be said of a lot of other singers.  Hey, not everybody is a performer like Bruce Dickinson.  But what must be stated is that Tomasz Wisniesky is gifted with a very good voice.  You just have to listen to their version of Deep Purple’s ‘Child in Time’  to verify this. OK, he cannot reach the really high notes like Ian Gillan did, but than again, even Ian Gillan himself cannot reach them anymore.
This is a band I like, with some very nice songs.  It may seem a bit dusted, since they go back to the sound of those rock giants from the late sixties, early seventies, but it’s honest material, and that kind of sings I’ll be playing again and again, which cannot be said from some band that had their five minutes of fame, and were never heard of later again.

I’ll be following the career of this band.  Let’s hope they visit Belgium soon.

90/100

Erik Morren.