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Bad News
The GÄS presents its second album
The second strike of the Cologne‘s five-pack The GÄS is again a great
one, and confirms all those who believed that the band around the singer
Pedro Cardoso had more pearls for the Hard Rock Olympus to exhibit,
after their debut ‚Savage‘. ‚Bad News‘ is the name of the follow-up CD
produced by Dirk Baldringer and causes a lot of excitement with ten new
high-octane tracks of the sleaze gang from the Rhine.

Again it‘s a joint production of the three guitar players Jakob
Timmermann, Michael Krol and Mike Schneider, building the center of
the unique The GÄS‘ sound together with Pedro Cardoso, who also
wrote the lyrics to the songs on the new album.

People who already knows The GÄS will immediatelly notice the new
addition to the band's line-up: the drummer Hanno Kerstan got on in the
middle of the lockdown and now hits the drums through the seventies
roots that give the foundation to the band's hard rock style. But if you
think you already know what to expect from “Bad News”, you've got
another thing coming: “each one of our songs should always bring a
surprise with it, that's very important to us,” says Michael Krol, describing
the approach to the new The GÄS‘ tracks.

But it’s nothing like the 'complex sound' from the blissful progressive rock
era. Rather, the five show what a very well-made hard rock they can
offer: excellent guitar riffs with always an extra spice, rough but melodical
singing and beats driven to push the dirty The GÄS‘ sound into the limbs
and leaving no time for brooding.


„Bad News“ – Made for the stage

For several reasons, “Bad News” screams loud and clear for the huge
rock stages from the first riff. The GÄS is an excellent live band – let
YouTube do the talk – but not only. "Bad News" was also recorded
completely live and analog at the studio of the Leverkusen-based
legendary sound engineer Dirk Baldringer. As ‚the tinkerer from the
Rhine river‘ he has always been well known to musicians in Germany: for
decades he has taken care that hundreds of guitar amps from relevant
brands sound more brilliant. Together with him, The GÄS sounds even
better than their debut. "Bad News" is reminiscent of the good old big live
stadium rock albums but energetically new at the same time.
Like in the first CD ‚Savage‘, Michael Krol, Jakob Timmermann and Mike
Schneider conjure up a guitar thunderstorm that makes people
immediatelly aware. As always, Michael Krol and Mike Schneider pass
the four-strings to each other a couple of times, so that both alternately
cross guitars with Jakob Timmermann. "Mike and Michael have quite
different techniques on the bass, and I get along very well with both of
them", tells Hanno about the basic groove of the songs. The Duisburgbased guy (who, as the rhythmic backbone of Mystic Prophecy, often
shows why the italian “batteria” is sometimes the most appropriate term
for “drum set”) uses the classic structure of rock drumming when playing
with The GÄS.

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