Band : Swedish Hitz Goes Metal
Album title : Swedish Hitz  Goes Metal
Label : Doolittle Group – Sound Pollution
Distributor : /
Release Date : 25/08/2011
Release : CD

What the f..k is this I thought when I started listening to this CD.  Well, if I’m honest, this CD is not worth it’s money.  When you’ve grown accustomed to some songs being played in a certain fashion and style, and this for quite some years already, this performance hurts my ears.

You’ve got to admit that Tommy Reinxeed has got balls though, for trying to tackle these songs who’ve had their fair success over the world in the last years.  But what could have been a surprise, is totally ruined.
Not only are most, if not all tracks, played a few beats faster than the original, which is not that disturbing, as musically it’s all very well played, but what ruins the tracks are the vocals.  If you’ve grown accustomed to the harmonically vocals Abba was known for, and which even Roxette had, it’s painful to my ears to hear the screams and shouts on these ‘interpretations’.  It could have been good with a decent vocalist, but here it’s clear the singer isn’t able to reach the notes he wanted to reach or should have reached to make it a decent song.

If this is how the songs should have sounded like from the beginning, as Mr. Reinxeed has stated, it’s obvious that neither Abba nor Roxette would have gained the success they got. 

So it’s really a shame these songs were raped, mutilated in this way.  The originals, even when they’re not metal nor hard rock, sounded far better.  And to make matters more it is announced that some sort of band will be formed to perform this songs live…

50/100

Erik Morren.