Guano Apes
Proud Like a God

With "Proud Like a God", clips were shot for two of the most popular songs: "Open Your Eyes" and "Lords of the Boards", thanks to which this album received a crazy promotion. Then a clip for the song “Rain” was still shot, but it was practically not shown on TV. And after the first listening to the album, it became clear that in addition to these two hits there was practically nothing to listen to. Indeed, the rest of the songs somehow fade compared to them, and they can be divided into two types: heavy, but absolutely uninteresting, based on one guitar riff and the super-powerful vocals of Sandra Nasich, who is trying uncontrollably to scream guitars; as well as ballads and half ballads, among which there are good ones. Of these, we can distinguish “Never Born” with a non-standard structure and “Scapegoat” - an amazing thing with a catchy chorus. The rest, so to speak, is not for everybody. Also of the advantages can be noted the so-called "syndrome of the beginning group", namely, the heavy sound of guitars, which gives the songs extremeness, and the cello that sounds in some ballads. To summarize: “Proud Like a God” was recorded according to one simple and well-known formula for every musician - we compose and record two absolute hits, shoot clips on them, a couple more good songs in the album, and everything else to fill in the disk space. But based on the fact that this album was sold in considerable circulation, the Guano Apes group can be congratulated, because their trick worked one hundred percent.