Blind Ego - Liquid (2016) [Hi-Res]

Blind Ego a.k.a. Kalle Wallner took seven years to complete his third solo effort. While 2007's debut "Mirror" sounded smooth and almost melancholic, the Freising-native Bavarian utilized the figurative steam hammer on 2009's "Numb" and served the audience with a tough as nails monster of hard rock heavily influenced by metal. "Liquid" now fuses the two earlier approaches without merely being a thrown together sum of its parts. In fact the elements were organically merged - and the result contains nine pieces of music that offer everything: from mighty hard rock melodies to brutal heavy metal riffing action all the way to emotionally charged passages. By means of those tools, "Liquid" ultimately completes a comprehensive artistic process that saw its beginning years ago. In the center of all this, there is Kalle Wallner's both virtuoso as well as effective style of guitar playing that unifies all the energy streams in one collective soul.