Heard a lot about this band but never anything by them until now. I was excited to say the least to hear this one! Formed around Mat Sinner (SINNER) and featuring ex-GAMMA RAY vocalist Ralf Scheepers, the band play full on metal! Making his debut recording wise is drummer Randy Black (ex-ANNIHILATOR) and he is from the Scott Travis/Anders Johnansson school of power drumming.
Primal Fear have often been compared to the mighty Judas Priest in reviews I've read and that is exactly what you get here. Take the opener; `Metal Is Forever' which you'd swear was a Priest tune! Big guitars and drums coupled with anthemic chorus superb. Scheepers really has that Halford wail, check out `Sea Of Flames' for proof but he has his own stylings and one set of powerful lungs. `The Healer' clams things down slightly mid-album but its off again at a metal gallop on `Soulchaser'. Only slight reservation is that the quality tapers slightly by the album's end as `Heart Of A Brave' is average metal fare. The guitars of Tom Naumann and Stefan Leihing drive the songs along with just the right amount of soloing and a solid wall of riffs.
For metal maniacs everywhere and we're talking proper metal a la Priest/Maiden/Manowar, not this nu metal pop stuff!
