Michael Schenker Fest

Revelation

Nuclear Blast

All-star cast up their game.

After revisiting his history with the Scorpions and UFO via his Temple Of Rock band, Michael Schenker has spent the past few years of his ongoing renaissance celebrating the Michael Schenker Group’s legacy with Michael Schenker Fest, in which 80s-vintage MSG vocalists Gary Barden and Graham Bonnet are joined by Temple Of Rock’s Doogie White.

With the four-frontman format bedded in via the Resurrection album, with Revelation the cast shift up a gear, Schenker sounding especially inspired in his songwriting. Arresting riffs (Silent Again, Ascension) and anthemic choruses abound (Under A Blood Red Sky), and the Bonnet/Schenker partnership, curtailed first time round by that infamous trouser malfunction, yields potent results on The Beast In The Shadows. ■■■■■■■■■■