Rough Silk
A New Beginning

The Germans Rough Silk never belonged to the major heavy metal league. Perhaps for one simple reason: they never managed to come up with anything of their own. Using - for the sake of justice, let's say quite skillfully - the achievements, riffs and melodies of other, more successful teams, Ferdy Dernberg's band slowly but surely riveted their albums. However, Ferdy is perhaps best known for his participation in the Axel Rudy Pell band and his collaboration with a bunch of other artists; and Rough Silk, apparently, was a side project for him for fun. A new album titled “A New Beginning” was released in time for the 20th anniversary of Rough Silk. It is dedicated to the memory of Hilmer Staake, the guitarist of the group, who in 2006 suddenly went to the best of the worlds. Perhaps a break of 6 years from the release of the previous album of the band “End of Infinity” affected in the sense that Ferdy collected a lot of material during this time, which generally pulled for almost 62 minutes - already in advance minus an album in this genre. On the disc, we hear 13 numbers of an average hit, without ups and downs, recalling the campaign of either Rage, then Judas Priest, then UDO, then Grave Digger, or someone else from more or less large players in the global heavy scene. On the whole, “A New Beginning” turned out to be what it should have been: a well-knit-down average album that you can forget about a couple of minutes after its end and which you don’t have to listen to at all.