2004-06-08
What a great, catchy metal album!
This is a metal album to be heard while driving your car real fast, windows open, on a summer’s day, or rather while banging your head, drinking a cool Belgian beer while doing so.
This is no highly evlized black metal album, nor a sophisticated progressive metal album, this is heavy metal, plain and simple, and it rocks.
The opening track, Bounded By Hate, sets the pace here, simple, yet melodic metal riff, the vocalist doing a mean impersonation of Rob Halford, and a great middle section, breaking off into a solid metal riff,
The Saviour is another standout track, benefiting from the solid sound production, nothing too fancy, just simple, by-the-book heavy metal production that serves the music well.
So Far Away is an eighty’s style ballad, which is not as kitschy as one might think, but rather well-written and melodic, the following Tormented is another fine metal anthem, bringing things back on track,
There are no weak spots on the album, and from the outstanding cover art, to the photo of band members in a car with a bevy of Swedish beauties, its all screams MMEEETTAALLL!!! And I sure am listening.
Alon Miasnikov
