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Release Date
1997
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Length
9 tracks
Armed with a big enough budget to kit out a very small studio Click Click re-unite to produce an album of instrumental mayhem. Considering the studio consisted of a Mac computer running Cubase, an Akai S2000 sampler and a DM5 drum machine, Shadowblack is a remarkable achievement. Run this album through a 24 track studio with all the trimmings and Shadowblack would knock allcomers into oblivion. The album is relentless and totally uncompromising, and it does what a lot of albums fail to do…it saves the best till last. Listen to Did You Get What I Want at high volume and see if you're not holding your breath at the end.
Of course the biggest complaint concerning this album was the lack of vocals from Adrian Smith, but look again at what they had to work with. Click Click were never a rich band and studio time costs a lot of money. Couple this with the small amount of time allowed to produce the album (let alone learn how to use the equipment) and it's easy to see why they opted for sound over song.
Dark, Dangerous and Excellent.
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