Revenge

Some albums are just best described as "Fucking great METAL!" and you just wanna leave it at that, but one-paragraph-reviews belong in the Labels-section so here I'll try to elaborate a bit further. I will be using the terms "fuck" and "fucking" a lot though - it's just one of those albums that require it.

...Like in the case with the opener "Don't Play With The Fire". It cannot simply be described as awesome - it's a fucking awesome piece of intense powersteelmetal with chainsaw-riffs and a chorus yearning to make fuck with your braingoo! A cool-as-fuck midpace fist-pounder follows and ghaaaaah!! those fucking riffs!! They really sound like a band who walks around in post-apocalyptic riot gear all day, dragging slave-girls in chains along. It's also clear by now that Judas Priest has been a major musical influence on REVENGE, including the vocals of Kevin Hell Throat, but they've truly mastered the art of honoring their idols rather than lazily cloning them.

After another top-notch Priest-meets-Grim-Reaper-ripper starting off side B, comes that scary moment in many an album's compositions where the disappointing Token Rocker-Tune Filler threatens to rear its ugly head but fuck no - Revenge don't fuck around like that! The catchy chorus of "Rock You To The Top" is one of the absolute highlights of the album. The short 2-minute instrumantal "Battlefield" wrap things up and as far as Italian instrumentals go it holds its own rather well, even if it's no "World Of Fire" (AES). Fucking buy it.