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HÄLLAS have nothing against the comparison with great role models

01. April 2020

HÄLLAS haben nichts gegen den Vergleich mit großen Vorbildern

"On the records of Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Wishbone Ash etc. the guitar parts played in two voices always sound best. So why shouldn't we use the Twin Guitars for ourselves as well," asks Kasper Eriksson, drummer of the up-and-coming Swedish group Hällas, quite rightly. Because even if the band is often accused of sounding like a copy of Uriah Heep, Nectar or Rush - the way they do it is undoubtedly good! And where, please, is it even written that forever nobody is allowed to sound like the mentioned prog rock icons at their best times?

Hällas are the way they are, and that's okay. For nine years now, the fivesome, founded by Eriksson and bass/vocalist Tommy Alexandersson and completed by Alexander Moraitis and Marcus Pettersson on guitars and keyboard Nicklas Malmqvist, has been around. By the way: Again, parallels to Heep can be discovered. They went into the studio as a quartet in 1969 and came out again as a quintet, reinforced by keyboard player Ken Hensley ...