The awesome new album from the Australian heavy metal masters!
An essential purchase for fans of high quality traditional, classic, melodic, power & true heavy metal!
Review from Metal Temple:
AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!
Australian masters of heavy Metal are back! It's time for pumping
iron, headbanging, bone crushing activities! Hell yeah! Mattâs
ear-piercing voice, Dave's gargantuan bass, Damien's drums of doom and
Jamie's bombastic guitar are here once again. Also, I'd like to thank
them for giving me 1.000.000 Euros for this review - nah, just
kidding!!!
I still recall the bandâs previous amazing piece of
work called "Destructor" - yeah, it did manage to destroy my amp and my
neighbor's ears but hell yeah, what a great time I had. So on an
ordinary day, receiving tons of packages from around the world, I
stumbled upon an envelope from Australia. Now, in my mind Australia
along with Canada are the two countries that only release fine pieces of
work. It's like they have a Metal police allowing what gets to be
released or something.
Those of you unaware of this band try to
imagine the best possible scenario of a marriage between traditional
Metal and epical music (a.k.a. early period of Manowar - respect!) with
an outstanding production. And how can an album not reach perfection
when it starts off with a frenzied song such as "Annihilate"? How can
you not feel shivers run down your spine when you hear the diamond-like
voice of Matt Williams? He is simply THE vocalist that makes all those
Power Metal wannabe posers run for cover.
The variety of song
structure comes in nice contradiction with the monolithic (sometimes)
riffing and that's the beauty of this release. Once again it is proven
than no mater how many guitar solos, production tricks, special guests
an album might have, it is the magic hidden in its songs compositions
that really counts.
For me "Hellhammer" can stand with ease next
to mythical releases from known bands. Time will tell if the Metal
community will finally praise these outstanding musicians, offering them
a favorable position in the hall of Metal immortality!
Track listing:
1. Annihilate
2. That Was Then, This Is Now
3. Hellhammer
4. Grind To Metal
5. Up Against The World
6. Going Down
7. Relentless Force
8. Live For The Fight
9. Slaughterhouse
10. The Holy Devil
11. Death Or Glory
