D-A-D — Call of the Wild (review)

D-A-D — Call of the Wild album cover Album · 1986 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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Son of a gun...

Genre: cowpunk, new wave

"Call of the Wild" is more of a country-inspired post-punk album with elements of hard rock and blues rock. It is an entertaining album, to be sure, with a lot of not-too-bad tunes on it, which contain numerous references, lyrical and musical, to the universe of country-western culture (including lryrical topics of cattle herding, truck driving, shoot-outs, gunmen, outlaws, revenge, settling and pioneering - and musical features such as twang and slide guitar solos and banjo-like guitar figures).

While not a metal album, "Call of the Wild" is important in relation to Danish hard rock and heavy metal, since it introduced Disneyland After Dark (later D-A-D) - a band that would be the most important Danish hard rock and heavy metal band on the Danish mainstream rock scene. Ironically, D-A-D allegedly switched to metal because they became sick and tired of playing country-inspired punk.

I don't know if the generic metalhead (I apologize for this stereotypification) will like "Call of the Wild". Still, if one likes rock music and alternative music, then I think one might like "Call of the Wild."
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