Tag Archives: Heavy Metal

Battle Beast, Unholy Saviour. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Domination is not just measured in output but in years also. The Scandinavian block has over the course of the last few years become a power house, an energising animal with seemingly just one point to make and that is to prove time and time again that this decade is about those set of countries providing the very best Heavy Metal music anywhere in the world. In Finland’s Battle Beast the trend continues and in their latest stormer of an album, Unholy Saviour, it’s easy to see why.

Accept, Blind Fury. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Sometimes you just have to let the bull rage, let the colossus of the animal world snort and devastate even the most delicate of china shops in the cause of smashing a few plates. That bull, the beast that can rip open a refusing ear at 200 yards, stares out from the front of the latest, and phenomenally brilliant, album by Accept and the Blind Rage of lyrical fury and crazed wrath crashes through the barrier between stereo and thought and holds the soul hostage till it realises that anger is not a fashion statement; it is deep, honest and fruitful.

Cult Of The Fox, Angelsbane. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you have to join a out of the ordinary following, then music has all the power it needs to make that following gather pace in such a way than the rather obtuse word trendy can express. This year has seen the continent of Europe really come of age when it comes to Heavy Metal, outshining almost all, with a couple of notable exceptions, that the natural homes of the U.K. and North America could hope to match and more so in the Scandinavian heartlands. Swedish Heavy Metal group Cult of the Fox greatly add to this growing reputation with their album Angelsbane.