Artist: Fogalord
Title: Masters Of War
Label: Limb Music
Cat #: LMP1706-165
Release Year: 2017
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewelcase

Masters of War is the second full-length album from the Italian epic symphonic power metal band Fogalord.

Their 2012 debut, A Legend To Believe In was a surprising album of the symphonic-/epic metal genre, and which was welcomed with overall positive reviews.  Five years later, it's successor entitled Masters Of War, is a work with a theme concerning itself with the story of the debut work, a concept album.

Fans of bombastic sounds, supported by galloping riffs and a true fist-in-the-air attitude, will love this album. Masters Of War bursts with classical-symphonic songwriting, heartfelt choirs, passages influenced by folklore, bagpipes and galloping rhythms, as well as insertions of influences of genres from melodic black metal to heart-speeding power metal bass attacks. As far as the subject matter goes, it takes the listener behind the tale of the debut album. 

The Italians have certainly spread a thick layer of cement under the base of their established class with this album and fans of classical-speedy, highly melodic metal songs will find it difficult to avoid this album.

Recommended if you like: Rhapsody of Fire, Dragonland, Manowar, Sabaton, Grave Digger, Running Wild, Edguy,  HammerFall, Helloween, Blind guardian, Kamelot 

Track Listing:
1. Il racconto della tempesta
2. Rising Through the Mist of Time
3. Daughter of the Morning Light
4. Masters of War
5. By the Everspring Tree
6. The Storm of Steel
7. Absence of Light
8. When the Blizzard Awakes
9. In Everwinter Wait
10. The Gift of the White Lady
11. The Sword's Will