{"id":127,"date":"2009-11-30T14:15:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=127"},"modified":"2009-11-30T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:15:49","slug":"uli-jon-roth-under-a-dark-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2009\/11\/30\/uli-jon-roth-under-a-dark-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Uli Jon Roth &#8211; Under a Dark Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-128\" title=\"roth\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/roth.jpg\" alt=\"roth\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Uli Jon Roth is best known as former guitarist for the German heavy metal band Scorpions from 1974-77. Obvious details aside, Under a Dark Sky is Roth\u2019s sixth solo release and his thirteenth including his work with other bands. This album is mostly a mixture between mid-\u201970s pop and progressive metal sensibilities mixed with well-orchestrated symphonic passages. Roth attempts to convey a sense of grandiose by melding the emotional wail of arena rock with neo-classical guitar acrobatics and stirring symphonic backdrops. While the classical instrumentation is carefully executed, well-produced, and effective in creating an epic landscape, the more pop-influenced passages can come off as dated plastic. As \u201cThe Magic Word\u201d morphs into a biting guitar riff and dramatic stops, the operatic wails are ill-placed, badly executed and naively produced. One can actually hear the vocalist back away from the microphone as he sings. At times stirring and effective, Under a Dark Sky is altogether abrupt in its conception and transitions and it fails to conjure the same revelatory imagery that the album cover exhibits. (SPV GmbH Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spv.de\/\">www.spv.de<\/a>) <strong>Dustin Danyluk<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uli Jon Roth is best known as former guitarist for the German heavy metal band Scorpions from 1974-77. Obvious details aside, Under a Dark Sky is Roth\u2019s sixth solo release and his thirteenth including his work with other bands. This album is mostly a mixture between mid-\u201970s pop and progressive metal sensibilities mixed with well-orchestrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}