Victory (3) – Don't Get Mad ...Get Even

With their second album Don’t Get Mad… Get Even (Metronome Musik), Victory raised the stakes a notch — gearing their generic form of party metal towards American ears. Victory had a pretty simple game plan — maximize their hooks to get played on American radio. Dreams of arena-level stardom were no doubt dancing in their noggins. There is some decent guitar work on Don’t Get Mad… Get Even, calling to mind the fine German engineering of Accept. In fact, guitarist Herman Frank was once a member of Accept. That might explain that bit of guitar nastiness that opens Running Wild. All in all, Don’t Get Mad… Get Even is mildly catchy, though rife with cliché. Song titles include Arsonist Of The Heart and Seven Days Without You Makes One Weak. Not exactly Bill Shakespeare. But hey, I caught myself singing the chorus to Arsonist Of The Heart out loud the other day, so I guess the joke’s on me!