EMIL BULLS • Love Will Fix It • LP

Arising Empire

Emil Bulls, Germany's flagship alternative metal band, are getting the new year off to an energetic start with their new album "Love Will Fix It".

The band from Munich has been around since 1995 and it is above all singer Christoph von Freydorf and guitarist Stephan Karl, who have been with the band from the very beginning, who are responsible for the high recognition value and the inimitable Emil Bulls style. Brutal riffs meet great melodies and lush grooves.

This also applies to "Love Will Fix It", the quintet's eleventh album. However, the gentlemen expand their established sound with innovative elements that will captivate both long-time fans and new listeners. The catchy title track "Love Will Fix It", for example, is decidedly pop and optimistic. Certainly a highlight at future Emil Bulls concerts. But the Munich-based band are also still masters of the well-groomed metal plank, just listen to the crisp verses of "Whirlwind Of Doom".

This mixture of heaviness and catchiness, of familiar and fresh elements, is what makes Emil Bulls such an important constant in the German alternative scene. Since the chart success of their first "real" album "Angel Delivery Service" in 2001, every long player by the band has reached the Top 100. Not to mention the countless sweat-inducing concerts throughout Europe. Anyone who delivers so consistently is definitely doing a lot right. "Love Will Fix It" is the next proof of this.