Iron Savior - The Landing
In a lot of ways, Power Metal is a very well defined area with a very well defined sound. When you pick up an album by a Power Metal band like Iron Savior, you pretty much know what you’re going to get. The genre stereotypes are out in full force here. Anthems to Metal? Check. Power ballads? Yup. Blazing guitar solos? In every track. Science Fiction/Fantasy lyrics with heroes slaughtering monsters and faceless evil armies? 90% of the album, buddy. Everything executed with practiced precision? If you’re an Iron Savior fan, you’re getting what Iron Savior does best. Is it anything new or adventurous for the genre? No fucking way. This is Power Metal for Power Metal fans. If you love Power Metal, you’re going to love this - if you don’t already have several different versions of The Landing in various forms from various other bands (including Iron Savior themselves). I’ve heard this from Hammerfall, Total Eclipse, Primal Fear and every other Power Metal band I’ve ever been exposed to. If I didn’t live through the era when Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Angel Witch, Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, Heathen, Anvil Chorus, Brocas Helm and any number of other classic Heavy Metal/Melodic Thrash bands ruled the day, I would think this shit was awesome. Metal and proud as hell of it? Fuck yeah! I’m there with you. The problem I have with Iron Savior is not that they couldn’t pull off an album that kicks ass (this does) but that they couldn’t do something daring or adventurous. This was formula executed to perfection. I’ve been around the Metal block so many times that they’ve named a street after me [Christgrinding Avenue, if I’m not mistaken. -Editor]. Formula executed to perfection is fine, but for a jaded Metalhead like me, The Landing is like Chinese takeout. It’s great when you’re consuming it, but 30 minutes later, you’re hungry again.
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