Big Dogz
Occupation
- Dan McCafferty: Voice
- Jimmy Murrison: Guitar
- Pete Agnew: bass guitar, vocals
- Lee Agnew: Drums
Big Dogz is the 22nd studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth. It was released on 15 April 2011 on the German label Edel AG.
Title list
All songs were written by Nazareth.
There is also a version of the album with a bonus CD of a live recording of an acoustic concert is included in 2000. The band was joined in this concert by Ronnie Leahy on the piano. The recording was produced by Bruce Watson. The tracks are:
Guest musicians
Pavel Bohaty - piano with Butterfly
Yann Roullier - percussion at Radio and Lifeboat
Content and melody of the songs
The songs have a strong orientation to the rock of the years 1970, such as AC / DC and Rose Tattoo. It is also kept very bluesy. As some reviewers her previous album The Newz criticized because of overproduction, the band went on the more classical recording track without too many effects. The album was not as hard and heavy metal as its predecessor.
As musically and lyrically hardest song Watch Your Back should be emphasized that embodies a similar attitude as Expect No Mercy with its youth gang - texts, on the other hand, accompanied by piano music ballad Butterfly is a song that squints in the direction of Love Hurts. The quasi - title track Big Dogs Gonna Howl, which will be released as a single, presents itself dust-dry bluesy. With When Jesus Comes to Save the World one delivers a dark, melancholy Doomwalze, the musical follows on The Gathering of The Newz, although the lyrical concept is different. In No Mean Monster, the band delivers obviously a tribute to their own mascot Fred the artwork of the No Mean City LP. In Sleeptalker it is important that there are people who talk in their sleep and thereby reveal often embarrassing or even dangerous information about yourself. The text is cynical and humorous black, because here speaks a dormant serial killer, among other things about skeletons, which he collects in his house.
Success and review
The album reached number 73 in the album charts in Germany, in Austria # 55, in Switzerland and in Russia space 70 space 25
The reviews from many different. The critics were unanimous about the fact that Dan McCafferty vocally, was not fully up to par, but the album was well received both positive and negative. hardrockheaven.net for example, wrote: " Nazareth continue to make good music ," while musikreviews.de writes, " even as a die-hard fan will be there with " Big Dogz " have a hard time you have plenty to be better material in the cabinet of the band but "