Pretty Maids
Motherland

The new album is moving in the same pattern as its predecessor. It’s full of melodic heavy songs and Ronnie Atkins is responsible for a big part of these melodies. His voice is fantastic once more and seems like he gets better time after time. As expected, the album kicks in with a dynamic song called “Mother Of All Lies” that has a cheering mood and makes you feel good and it’s the first video that was made for “Motherland”. Next comes “To Fool A Nation” moves in the same mood as the first song but is kind of slower and has a hard rock edge. “Confession” in kind of an intro followed by “The Iceman” and I can say that the new album sounds darker especially in songs like this one.

The whole band is in great shape playing unbelievably good music, all parts are well-played and although the album sound less metal than their last album and has more radio songs it stills remains a great album and i really it’s hard rock approach. “Sad To See You Suffer” is a power ballad while “Hooligan” is one of the heaviest songs of the album. Another great song is “Infinity” followed by another really heavy song called “Why So Serious”. Jacob Hansen’s fantastic production matches the high standards of the name he is carrying and the artwork was made by Kai Brockschmidt who also made the “Pandemonium” cover. Title track “Motherland” speeds up the things a little bit and “I See Ghosts” and “Who What Where When Why” are in the same mood as the song “To Fool A Nation”. The Japanese version has one more song, a remix version of “Mother Of All Lies”. “Bullet For You” is another great power ballad as the last song “Wasted” that I liked the most of these radio hits songs of the album.

I really like the material that Pretty Maids have written in the two last album and i think that we will hear many great songs in the future from them, if they keep writing stuff like that. “Motherland” is a good album, probably not as good as “Pandemonium” but has tons of melodies, great well-written songs with an overall high musicality and i think that you should give it a shot.