Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
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Artist: UnleashedEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Music Label: Steamhammer / Spv
Product features:
- UNLEASHED HAMMER BATTALION
- The Greatest Of All Lies
- Long Before Winter s Call
- Your Children Will Burn
- Hammer Battalion
- This Day Belongs To Me
- Marching Off To War
- Entering The Hall Of The Slain
- Black Horizon
- Carved In Stone
- Warriors of Midgard
- Midsummer Solstice
- Home Of The Brave
- I Want You Dead
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Free Music Review: Thrashy riffs, melodic solos and deep growls... WOW!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am new to this band, so I am now wondering where I was when these butt-kickers passed under my radar without being detected. Anyway, it is never too late to consume some good music, and this release absolutely is one of the greatest guitar-oriented metal albums I have ever listened to. So yes, where was I?
In few words, the riffs here are very thrashy, and there's also a lot of tremolo picking lines, which are very black/death-like. The playing is tight and with plenty of attitude. The solos are toneful, tasteful and melodic; and the exotic phrasing brings Marty Friedman to mind, though these guys definitively have a "rawer" touch. The opener track "The Greatest of All Lies" makes an entry statement and then the rest of the album follows with aggression and solid musicianship, without disappointing one single second. I absolutely love this thing!
I equally like these guys are very good with their instruments, but avoid the self-indulgent wanking that is so typical of technical or prog death metal bands. This is as raw, old-school and thrashy as a death metal album with melodic sparks should be. And by the way, I am not very sure this even classifies as "pure" death metal, in spite of the deep growls, because the lyrics are not very typical of the genre.
Anyhow, what matter most is that the songs are well-structured and even a tad "mysterious", thanks to that "charm" only a few chosen ones are able to deploy -early Annihilator comes to mind, as well as Carcass.
So guys, I want to invite all true metal fans around to give a try to this album. I will absolutely be getting more Unleashed my side, and might even review a couple of more albums of theirs in the near future. As of for this one, it is a five star metal release from head to tail. Go buy it now. I am sure you will thank me later!
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The death metal legends from Sweden have delivered the strongest album of their hallowed career! Hammer Battalion is a true and modern death metal masterpiece that is destined to set the bar for quality in 2008! With an aggressive marketing plan in place and a full-scale North American tour in the works, the sky is truly the limit for this band. The finest death metal release of the year has arrived. HAIL UNLEASHED!Hard Rock & Metal Music CDs
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