 
 Some reviews in both german and english, regarding the band Detained recordings, wich was the most recent release I did...I am now working on material for a new record..meanwhile..enjoy and please visit again for new earcandy soon..the demos are already in progress.
 
"Soundtechnisch haben die Schweden ganze Arbeit geleistet. Die Scheibe klingt klasse. 
Die Gitarren haben einen sehr modernen Klang erhalten, der wieder stark an die vorher schon genannten Bands erinnert. 
Die Drums klingen fett, sind allerdings ein klein wenig leise ausgefallen. Einen riesigen Trumpf haben Detained aber - und das ist Sängerin Tina Gunnarson. 
Die Frau ist eine richtige Rockröhre, die ihre Stimme kraftvoll einzusetzen vermag. 
Das beweist sie eindrucksvoll bei „Day To Die“. Nicht, dass die restlichen Songs schlechter gesungen wären, aber der erwähnte Titel verschafft der Frontfrau den Raum, sich richtig auszutoben. 
Der Titel „Goodbye“ kommt aber schon ganz nah an den Vorgänger heran und demonstriert ebenfalls die prächtige Stimme von Tina Gunnarson. 
In dem Lied befindet sich auch noch ein, wenn auch kurzes, Gitarrensolo, das aufzeigt, dass die Band noch lange nicht an den Grenzen ihrer Fähigkeiten angelangt ist."
Thomas Seitz
7.5 von 10 Punkten
 

 
"Svenska Detained har debuterat med en EP som innehåller entusiastiskt gitarrspel och använder sig flitigt av effektiva trummor och fantastisk sång. 
Ett intressant metalverk som gör att man trånar efter mer. En femspårs-EP är inte nog. Detained har potentialen att komma riktigt långt, om de spelar alla kort rätt."
 
Glenn Andersson // Never Too Loud
 

 
"I'm not a fan of female voices (I guess people who occasionally read my reviews know this by now) but Tina Gunnarsson has a voice that is appealing to me. 
She has a pure voice, has both strength and emotion in her voice (she goed berserk in ‘Reset’) and especially her intonation is great. 
And a very slight accent makes her voice even more charming. 
Every now and then her voice somewhat sounds like that of Anneke Van Giersbergen. The music is pure American heavy rock (a little grunge, a bit of nu-metal)."  
 
Lords Of Metal
 

 

"Detained is a new very interesting name coming from Sweden. Musically they describe them self as a female fronted rock`n roll/ metal band and a awesome party metal band. And yes their music really kicks with alsoinfluences of melodic metal, modern metal and power metal. With the strong opener I Am, we get a good proof of all this with really tasteful melodic parts and an addictive chorus. The vocals from Tina is perfect for this music with both a smooth soft voice to a more rough/raw side. The sound is good and I like the natural style this band have with a clean production without to much layers in the production and instrumentation. The guitars sounds awesome and I like the bass playing and the hard hitting drums. Ilike the power and the punch in the music with great vocals and powerful instrumentation with cool details and sound.

I look forward to follow this band in the future, and can`t hardly wait to hear their debut, so check out Detained now!!!"

97/100

 

Reviewed by Arne


 

"The Detained sound is heavily guitar oriented. And these are some truly interesting guitars, nicely offsetting the vocals which are of the harder metal variety. Some limited work with them in the production room, but, for the most part, what you hear live is what you’ll hear here. And Ms. Tina can belt out a metal song, hard, gritty and in your face. I usually go for the operatic sound, but, there’s no denying the emotion in this vocal, and you have to respect that ability, no matter who’s doing the singing. And the material seems to favor that approach; this is hard, driving metal."
 
Docor T.// Sonic Cathedral
 
 

 
“Tuesday, September 6, 2011 A New Swedish band called Detained just released their first EP....Review from SwedenMetal can be viewed here... Here I sit now with an EP by DETAINED The EP starts with well crafted riffs. Then the vocals come and I begin to wonder. I know that it went pretty fast from the band started to recording the EP. But it feels like the band has put a lot of time to get everything from the smallest little riffs to each beat of a drum to run smoothly. In order not to talk about the song. The well-made riff after another, the ones Tina's voice brings the lyrics to life in. When I listened to all five tracks, I become almost a little disappointed that there are no more songs left. Some of you wonder now what kind of genre they play. But I can not quite put a genre to this. They themselves have written this statement on their Facebook page "female fronted metal with Influence of rocknroll and heavy metal sound!" ”
— Jonas Lindqvist, Review of the EP
 
 

Old geezer from Sweden, ex 1st generation punk, and lifelong writer of pop/rock songs in the classic vein, with lyrics in Swedish. 

I also dabble in electronica, after getting heavily into it as a listener a few years back. I like a lot of the stuff that comes out of Berlin, especially the more soulful and classically "musical" side of minimal, like Fritz Kalkbrenner, Trickski and Till von Sein (yes, I'm a fan of the Suol label). I quite enjoy dubstep as well, though it's farther from what I like to do myself (anyway, I hate that smeary snare sound).

I find that my roots come out in my electronic sounds on their own accord. I prefer to drive grooves with samples of "real" acoustic/electric instruments (even if I sometimes treat them heavily) and the song structures tend towards the classic as well. But most of all I enjoy the process of producing electronic tracks - serendipitous and surprisingly organic, almost like a one-man jam.

I can firmly say that I don't follow trends. I really have no idea what they are anyway. :-)



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