21st Century Vampire - 21st Century Vampire

It’s Sunday of the weekend before Halloween…what more should you expect while celebrating the dark nights, Jack O’Lanterns, candy bags, fake blood, horror masks and kids screaming and laughing?? Well, yeah, of course there’s gonna be vampyres and 21st Century ones are just a valid as any other century…I mean let’s face it, they’re immortal, ever living, creepy and (except Selene) as fug-ugly ever. Yet these fresh faced young punks seem to have missed the ugly boat. Trying to find out any information about them proved fruitless (they’re vampyres right!) so what you have is a couple of sentences of blah blah blah, where we realise that glam punk guitar and synths rule the story of the album. It’s not that this is a bad album; it’s just not very original in its context or execution. All the usual glam rock gubbins are here to be heard, the guitar is shredded while the vocals are clear and calculated. If I was to guess, as this is a very European sounding opus, that the band hail from Scandinavia or very close by. Don’t get me wrong…I’ve loved Scandi glam rock from The 69 Eyes and H.I.M, to Hanoi Rocks and ABBA and everything in-between. The 21st C V scratches that itch nicely with a great sounding album aimed at today’s European vampire culture, wearing all black at Wave-Gotik-Treffen who don’t fit in with the uber-goths and other scene whores.