Back On Track
Following up 2009’s critically lauded “Everest”, Switzerland’s Shakra are back with a new blast of raw power in “Back On Track”! As always with a new Shakra album, expect brain power to back up the extensive riffage. This is power rock sans the posturing and clichés. Shakra’s new vocalist, the Indian born John Prakesh, brings a new edge to the group and presents a very personal album about the highs and lows in life, based on the bands experiences of the last years. And not like they ever left it, Shakra is “Back On Track”!
After just discovering Switzerland’s Shakra with their 2009 album Everst which I liked quite a lot I was pretty keen to get a new album from them. Shakra have some similarities to their fellow Swiss rockers Gotthard, but these guys have a bit more of a harder edge to them, and on this new album Back On Track they seem to have pushed that a bit further again towards a more modern hard rock sound. I would be interested to find out how they have tuned their guitars for this album because they…