But here's not a good example of how to do it. Well, simple hard rock isn't a bad thing- I'm right into acca dacca, and have no real problem with competent rockin stuff from earlier times. There's just some real irony to the idea that an album with 3 songs all about heavy metal is not infact heavy metal.Īnd now onto the bad. Devoid of interesting little motifs that heavy metal tends to have, the guitars are reduced to an utterly subservient role- chugging along in support of the vocals, with a fairly weak, thin tone and nothing else. Sure, they're heavily distorted, but the fact remains this album has as many riffs as Bon Jovi. There's exceptions, of course, but whereas, say, For Whom the Bell Tolls, or Hail and Kill have riffs, this album has chord progressions. Now, I'm not one who's particularly qualified on the fine line between heavy metal and hard rock, but I think one fairly good notifier (in many, but not all cases!) is the way the guitar goes about it's thing. Now I could quite easily close this review with a WRONG, THIS IS JUST BAD HARD ROCK, and that would be perfectly adequate, but I guess I oughta do some description, so here goes. Maybe less of the vision and youthful excitement the early albums had, perhaps, but with great vocals and engaging enough instrument work to keep things ticking over. Being fairly sympathetic to Manowar and all that, I came in with fairly high expectations of this album Warriors of the World had some really great tunes and I saw no real reason as to why anything would be terribly different here.
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