{"id":2283,"date":"2012-12-30T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:34:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-30T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:34:26","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Shakra &#8211; Powerplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Hard rock band Shakra are back with the ninth studio album in their fifteen year career.  The band have developed a good reputation for delivering quality albums time after time, while not changing things around too much.  This latest album continues that streak of quality albums, but adds a little more variety.<\/p>\n<p>Brief comments on a couple of tracks..<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Life is now&#8221; starts with a nice guitar riff that really gives the song a catchy feel, and then couples this with some great vocals that bear a resemblance ato Def Leppard, but a bit heavier.  A great start to the album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The mask&#8221; is more of a straight up rock song of the type Shakra fans are used to.<\/p>\n<p>The last song on the album, &#8221;Too good to be true&#8221; is a nice ballad and a great end to the album.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that Shakra have produced yet another great album here, and one that their fans are going to love.  It&#8217;s an album that hard rock fans everywhere should check out.<\/p>\n<p>Powerplay will be released on 11th January 2013 on AFM records<\/p>\n<p>Shakra are:<\/p>\n<p>John Prakesh \u2013 vocals<br \/>\nThom Blunier \u2013 guitar<br \/>\nThomas Muster \u2013 guitar<br \/>\nDominik Pfister  \u2013 bass<br \/>\nRoger Tanner \u2013 drums<\/p>\n<p>Track listing:<\/p>\n<p>1. Life Is Now<br \/>\n2. The Mask<br \/>\n3. Higher<br \/>\n4. Wonderful Life<br \/>\n5. Dear Enemy<br \/>\n6. Save You From Yourself<br \/>\n7. Don\u2019t Keep Me Hanging<br \/>\n8. Dream Of Mankind<br \/>\n9. Stevie<br \/>\n10. Because Of You<br \/>\n11. Secret Hideaway<br \/>\n12. Too Good To Be True<\/p>\n<p>Bonus Track on Ltd. Digipak: The World Keeps Turning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Hard rock band Shakra are back with the ninth studio album in their fifteen year career. The band have developed a good reputation for delivering quality albums time after time, while not changing things around too much. This latest album continues that streak of quality albums, but adds a little more variety. Brief comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}