Friends of Tarantino’s movies will click on this review only due to the band’s name. These six guys from Duisburg create works that are almost as crazy as the maestro’s are. They denote their musical style on Still Another Day To Come as metal – pop. Well, I must admit my initial skepticism. What the hell is metal – pop? Britney meets Joan Jett? We have already heard of it! Nightwish go even more into pop? Please not! Harder Banaroos for ten year old chicks? We have Tokio Hotel for them! No, THE BONNY SITUATION throw together all possible arrangements, far away from every musical trend, and only in the end they look at what comes out. The result is a varied, interesting mixture made of all possible and impossible styles. Pop, prog, thrash, power metal and rock are huddled up. While the opener opener Just A Fool sounds, due to it’s keyboards, like Dream Theater, the following Incredible Hatred runs steely paths. Also the up-tempo tracks The Bitter End, Slipping Into Doubt and When It's Lost offer enough strong metal riffs for everybody. Once reached The House Of Mary Jane the band gets slower and some electronic baubles are introduced. These fit perfectly, so that the song gains atmosphere and reaches a very intensive density. And vocalist Martin Kneifel has the chance to show once more his great voice.
The title track lurks with some thrash metal riffs, which penetrate the melodic structure of the song. In the good fancy Pirate Song THE BONNY SITUATION take the listener to a little journey in a folk-heavy dive full of drunken sailors. And with the 1:31 short Süx the band has also a great satire about cads on board: “My cock is bigger than yours, my balls are bigger than yours, my girl fucks better than yours, my car is faster than yours” looooool!
I also must mark the strong production that doesn’t need to hide from professional recordings.
THE BONNY SITUATION melt different musical styles together and offer a very interesting piece of music with Still Another Day To Come. Test it!