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Angel Dust - Of Human Bondage
Angel Dust are after some years of appreciated releases behind them back with a their 6th release, slightly delayed by some line-up changes which consisted of the fact that stringbender Bernd Aufermann left (for Running Wild), and was replaced by Ritchie Wilkison formely of Demons & Wizards. I must in the name of all honesty say that I haven't been
that into Angel Dust before, and can not really fully judge how this
stands compared to earlier releases and material, but from what I have
heard by them earlier I can at least say that this is the best they
have done so far. I would like to describe this as something in between
thrash metal and power metal, with the drumsound, special guitarriffs
and vocals mostly responsable for the thrashpart, and the powerful flow
and, actually pretty melodic from time to time, choruses and verses
for the more power metal touch to it, but still with a special sound
to it with some atmospheric touches. The album kicks off with the titletrack that has a very,very
similar vocalharmonies to a Primal Fear song during the verse, and makes
a good mark of the rest of the album. From here we get fast, pounding songs mixed with more
mid-tempo once all along to the end, and they are all very well done
and makes a very good mood of the album, even though I during the first
listeningsession felt the album lost a bit of it's interesting approach
from time to time in the songs in the mid part, but they pretty quickly
repaired those moments with surprising and catchy moments as twists
in the songs - and they rise at the end, and the second part of the
album is really good. Fans of a big amount of harmonies in their metal may not be so pleased with this, because they are mainly focusing on the significant thrashriffs here, and you might feel it's not perhaps a marvellous album - but a plain good one. But for you who for the past years have held Angel Dust
for the best in this genre - you will definitly like this new album
that surely will keep the name of Angel Dust in the top of today's modern
metalbands.
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