Over the years, especially in their 80s version of Hard Rock / Metal music, I rather admired what the French bands used to play. Great French bands such as SATAN JOKERS and WARNING, even if almost their entire material was sung in French, I liked their sense of class, sound and musical direction in Metal. Those two bands were no less of any other English driven groups. Let's just say that since I listened to the two mentioned bands I haven't really stumbled on any cool French band until I received the newly SUPERFIZ.

To my amazement, after I read about this new band even further, it seems that two important figures for the old French Metal scene actually helped on creating SUPERFIZ. Essentially the group was founded by the guitarist Oliver Spitzer of SATAN JOKERS and later on the paved the road for other talented members to join in. Gerald Manceau, once behind the skins of WARNING, has been showing his presence among the other local veterans. Therefore, it seemed that SUPERFIZ has a solid foundation to build upon their future.

In general, after doing a few spinning the wheel, I thought that SUPERFIZ played some nicely crafted Hard Rock / Bluesy Rock N' Roll and modernized Metal. To be frank, they haven't reached anything that new and what they made here wasn't as bombastic as they sound on the album. Right from the first couple of tracks, I noticed that their musical directions split between the heavier stuff such as the new age METALLICA, RAMMSTEIN, NICKELBACK and the more classical approaches of LED ZEPPELIN, AC/DC. With those kinds of influences it was bound that this debut self-titled album, released via the local Pervade Productions, would sound modern, somewhat commercialized and a little intense at times.

Even they being French and displaying material in French didn't quite help SUPERFIZ not to sound American. The large majority of the songs went on being rough as modern American acts such as OZZY, NICKELBACK and even BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, especially if you notice the tough sounding guitars and the crooked, yet sometimes faintly softer, voice outline of Pierre Benvenuti. However, with their modern Metal storm, the SUPERFIZ crew haven't forgot the roots of the music as they implemented some aspects of both 70s and 80s Hard Rock. Along with the riffages that made inner 80s combustion of the players to manifest, Oliver Spitzer assembled a nice line of solos that did only good. That is the reason why my personal favorite track "Sex And Love" sounded like a modern mixture with AC/DC and other several hits as "Démocratique Dictature", "La Fin du Monde" and "Rien à Perdre" roared with rage under the heavier sound.

Although I found this release quite soothing, I can't say that SUPERFIZ, even with their long time experience in overall, amazed me that hard. Yet, the band chopped off some heads with some tight stuff that won't bring them shame even if it didn't provide any news.