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The second album by former
guitarist
, following 2008's
, offers another thundering dose of power metal of more or less the same type his former bandmates used to make, minus the pompous epics that have clogged their latter-day (i.e. after he quit the band) work. This shouldn't come as a surprise, since the band he's using (vocalist/guitarist
, bassist
, and drummer
) were a
cover band in their native Germany before being recruited to back him at a festival. So they've got the anthemic, screaming-guitars sound down to a T, and
' brutarian, rock-informed leads (which gave
's first six albums a bite that their later albums, which stole more from classical music, lacked) cut through everything like a pavement saw. This is fist-pumping metal, with catchy choruses, high-pitched screams, and thunderous drumming, and the lightning-speed riffing of the title track is proto-thrash not unlike
's
or early-'80s
at their most hell-for-leather. Old-school metal fans will find much to love here, and younger listeners could learn a lot about the genre's roots, and its true heart, from
and band. ~ Phil Freeman