Roddus Album Of The Day
1. Iron Eagle (5:39)
2. Lustful And Free (4:49)
3. Twilight Years (4:37)
4. Sworn To Silence (3:24)
5. False Messiah (Jack Starr cover) (5:12)
6. The Age Of Mastery (4:30)
7. Viper (4:39)
8. Displacement (4:28)
9. Chain Of Command (5:50)
10. Take This Pain Away (4:46)
11. Burning Heart (3:54)
12. The Moors (5:38)
Had two albums on the go today and both of them were metal. By the end of the day I wasn't sure which one I was listening to as they repeated on the ipod, but I did have a pretty busy day and it was difficult to focus on the music while working. That said this album is surprisingly better than I expected. This Iron Maiden influenced effort starts off with a couple of pretty strong full on numbers, with "Lustful and Free" Being the albums strongest track.Although predominately what I think is referred to as power metal, this LP also has plenty of other metal styles mixed in such as "Sworn to Silence" which has that slight rap lilt like Anthrax, and they pull it off well. As I re-listen to this again tonight, the playing is excellent and some of the guitaring is pretty technical and almost verging on speed metal. The title track is a great heavy rock number and wouldn't be out of place on the radio, has the right kind if catchy chorus. Plenty of metal cliches abound on this, but then it wouldn't be a metal album if it didn't. Just going on a bit to long at 57 minutes and as is usually the case for most albums over 40 minutes the quality of the songs tends to deteriorate towards the end, or maybe its that I loose concentration, but again it all starts to blur into sounding the same. Still, overall another enjoyable metal album to ad to my small "Good Metal Albums" collection with a rating of 3.5/5.
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1. Iron Eagle (5:39)
2. Lustful And Free (4:49)
3. Twilight Years (4:37)
4. Sworn To Silence (3:24)
5. False Messiah (Jack Starr cover) (5:12)
6. The Age Of Mastery (4:30)
7. Viper (4:39)
8. Displacement (4:28)
9. Chain Of Command (5:50)
10. Take This Pain Away (4:46)
11. Burning Heart (3:54)
12. The Moors (5:38)
Had two albums on the go today and both of them were metal. By the end of the day I wasn't sure which one I was listening to as they repeated on the ipod, but I did have a pretty busy day and it was difficult to focus on the music while working. That said this album is surprisingly better than I expected. This Iron Maiden influenced effort starts off with a couple of pretty strong full on numbers, with "Lustful and Free" Being the albums strongest track.Although predominately what I think is referred to as power metal, this LP also has plenty of other metal styles mixed in such as "Sworn to Silence" which has that slight rap lilt like Anthrax, and they pull it off well. As I re-listen to this again tonight, the playing is excellent and some of the guitaring is pretty technical and almost verging on speed metal. The title track is a great heavy rock number and wouldn't be out of place on the radio, has the right kind if catchy chorus. Plenty of metal cliches abound on this, but then it wouldn't be a metal album if it didn't. Just going on a bit to long at 57 minutes and as is usually the case for most albums over 40 minutes the quality of the songs tends to deteriorate towards the end, or maybe its that I loose concentration, but again it all starts to blur into sounding the same. Still, overall another enjoyable metal album to ad to my small "Good Metal Albums" collection with a rating of 3.5/5.
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