A Different Kind Of Truth can rightly be called a historic Van Halen album: it is the first album with new material in fourteen years. Even more special, it was recorded with David Lee Roth, the group's flamboyant lead singer. Given the quarrels in the past between Roth and Eddie van Halen (and the alcohol addiction of the latter), it is a small miracle that this CD saw the light of day at all. A
… bigger wonder is that A Different Kind Of Truth is also a great album. A few songs are adaptations of songs that the group wrote in the late seventies, but the great thing is that the group also sounds just as eager as the young dogs they were back then. Between the monster riffs Eddie van Halen conjures the most bizarre sound effects from his guitar, and Roth cheers, screams, squeaks, calls, lisps, whistles, begs and lashes out like a young god. The accelerated single Tattoo already promised a lot. The rest of A Different Kind Of Truth can certainly be heard. (PdK)more
