- Nov 24, 2002
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Tim Ripper Owens new band Beyond Fear have a debut album and is coming at us this year. The former vocalist of Judas Priest who also contributed to Iced Earth last opus has formed a band and this is the result.
Musically speaking sounds like something out of Jugulator which if you think this time IS NOT Judas Priest then it clicks very good. Has a lot of classic metal and the modern influence does not comes abusively as a mallcore band. Owens vocals have to be an acquired taste since the wailing part of them can get on somebody nerves but I can digest them well.
I guess it will be fair to say that most people will accuse this to be a rip-off of the aforementioned Jugulator and that the modern sound is excessively present, what puzzles me is that Tipton has been accused of being responsible for the bad sound of both Jugulator and Demolition, but this album (without Tipton composing) sounds very much alike! So either Owens got stuck but that composition vein or he was more than just a hired vocalist for JP during that era.
The first two songs Scream Machine, And You Will Die are very enjoyable frantic heavy metal, the next one Save Me doesnt click that good especially on the chorus which I feel badly done. The Human Race reminds me of Into The Pit but the vocals are not done well again, I feel that Owens tried to emulate Halford post JP career not very successfully. Coming At You is more accessible and very get along except for the chorus which is cheesy/childish in the craft IMO.
Dreams Come True is a semi-ballad done with deep voice and more emotional over the chorus which makes so far this the most enjoyable song of the album for me. By the time Telling Lies comes out the album definitively give the same sensation Savage Circus debut gave me this is a clone! Owens just decided to pick where the Priest albums left and keep doing the same, so much for originality. The rest of the songs swim in the same water packing the whole album into an average metal album.
The final judgement? Either wait until you find this one used cheap (like I hope to do at PPVII market) or put it inside a nice haul to lower S&H costs.
NP: Beyond Fear - 'The Faith'
Musically speaking sounds like something out of Jugulator which if you think this time IS NOT Judas Priest then it clicks very good. Has a lot of classic metal and the modern influence does not comes abusively as a mallcore band. Owens vocals have to be an acquired taste since the wailing part of them can get on somebody nerves but I can digest them well.
I guess it will be fair to say that most people will accuse this to be a rip-off of the aforementioned Jugulator and that the modern sound is excessively present, what puzzles me is that Tipton has been accused of being responsible for the bad sound of both Jugulator and Demolition, but this album (without Tipton composing) sounds very much alike! So either Owens got stuck but that composition vein or he was more than just a hired vocalist for JP during that era.
The first two songs Scream Machine, And You Will Die are very enjoyable frantic heavy metal, the next one Save Me doesnt click that good especially on the chorus which I feel badly done. The Human Race reminds me of Into The Pit but the vocals are not done well again, I feel that Owens tried to emulate Halford post JP career not very successfully. Coming At You is more accessible and very get along except for the chorus which is cheesy/childish in the craft IMO.
Dreams Come True is a semi-ballad done with deep voice and more emotional over the chorus which makes so far this the most enjoyable song of the album for me. By the time Telling Lies comes out the album definitively give the same sensation Savage Circus debut gave me this is a clone! Owens just decided to pick where the Priest albums left and keep doing the same, so much for originality. The rest of the songs swim in the same water packing the whole album into an average metal album.
The final judgement? Either wait until you find this one used cheap (like I hope to do at PPVII market) or put it inside a nice haul to lower S&H costs.
NP: Beyond Fear - 'The Faith'
