GIANT X: I, feat RUNNING WILD's Rolf and Peter

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From http://www.bravewords.com/news/193860 :

The big secret that fans have been speculating about is out at last: Giant X is the spectacular new band founded by Rolf Kasparek and Peter J. Jordan. Rolf has been the mastermind, guitarist and vocalist of the German metal flagship RUNNING WILD for more than 30 years, is one of the most charismatic musicians of the international metal scene and enjoys cult status around the globe. His friend and partner Peter J. Jordan joined the Running Wild fold in 2005 as a guitarist and has worked as a musician, composer, arranger and producer with german artists such as Tim Bendzko, Francis Buchholz (SCORPIONS), Thorsten Wingenfelder (FURY IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE) and FAIR WARNING.

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Giant X‘s debut album I will be out on Steamhammer/SPV on January 18th in Germany, January 21st in Europe and January 22nd in USA/Canada and is set to delight particularly fans of traditional hard rock.

“Giant X have a broader musical range which allows Rolf and myself to present ourselves from a totally different side,” Jordan explains. “Our material consists of consciously multi-layered numbers, more in the tradition of KISS, QUEEN, THIN LIZZY, VAN HALEN but also BILLY TALENT, in other words: rock music in the tradition of the seventies, eighties and nineties – our shared musical roots. The main thing for us was that people would be able hear the lightness and spontaneity of our collaboration.”

A total of 13 brand new songs, all of them penned by Jordan and Kasparek, will feature on Giant X’s debut album. The recording was produced and mixed by Peter J. Jordan, with lots of support from Kasparek and Running Wild’s live mixer Niki Nowy. No plans for Giant X‘s future have yet been made, but according to Jordan and Kasparek they are happy to “take things as they come. We don’t rule anything out at this point.”

Check out a teaser below:



 
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Nothing like making your fans salivate like posting a 16 second clip!!!!!
I wanna hear something recent out of this guy that doesn't sound like a home recording over a drum machine.
 
I can't believe I'm saying this but I think I like this album a bit more than Shadowmaker. It has ballsy heavy riffing, nodding grooves and a little bit of tongue in cheek rock n roll flavour. I'm not saying it sounds like Volbeat but it ain't exactly a millions miles away to me. I even like the blues tunes a bit though not as much as the other songs. I like the rock n roll songs a lot even with cheesy lyrical content. They are playful and put a smile on my face. Well done Rock n Rolf and Peter good job!
 
I can't believe I'm saying this but I think I like this album a bit more than Shadowmaker. It has ballsy heavy riffing, nodding grooves and a little bit of tongue in cheek rock n roll flavour. I'm not saying it sounds like Volbeat but it ain't exactly a millions miles away to me. I even like the blues tunes a bit though not as much as the other songs. I like the rock n roll songs a lot even with cheesy lyrical content. They are playful and put a smile on my face. Well done Rock n Rolf and Peter good job!

I kinda like the album (well, most of it is pretty good hard rock), but sorry, Giant X are in no way in the same league as Volbeat in my book. Each Volbeat album owns that Giant X disc. But I don't hear any similarity in sound or style, so use to compare them anyway...