Steel Prophet - Beware

*=Staff's pick	Heavenly Beware Transfusion Vamp* Leatherette Angels Killing Machine* You Are My Life (Gypsy Mind) Lost My Way Political Greed (Petrol Man) Moosilauke Cascade

Genre	US Power Metal	Nadir D'Priest	Vocals
Tracks	10	Steve Kachinsky	Guitar
Runningtime	48 Min.	Pete Skermetta	Guitar
Label	Massacre Records	Vince Dennis	Bass
Release	28 June 2004	Kevin Cafferty	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Iced Earth, Fates Warning

American Steel Prophet has been around in the metal scene for a while, this is their eight album. Experience is good, but can not replace the true fire that a top class metal band needs. This was unfortunately nothing that entered my "to buy"-list.

Steel Prophet is some kind of US powermetal, with influences from thrash and some progressive parts. But the tempo is too low for it to be good power and it is not heavy enough to be good thrash. It lacks some raw aggressiveness and some dirt on the hands.

The new singer Nadir D'Priest has an almost painfully monotone voice. The higher parts are delivered with a lot of tense. The production is hopeless. It sounds flat and stuffy… As if the members are locked up in separate toilets at a festival-camp, and someone rigged a microphone outside. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to run the production by themselves?

After two rather boring tracks there comes a quite okay song, Transfusion Vamp, which has a little more power and groove to it than the other material. Killing Machine is rather typical US-power, not so exciting, but not too bad either. You Are My Life (Gypsy Mind) is an acceptable ballad, which gets kind of heavy in the end. Political Greed starts with some hard riffs, but ends up in some kind of rap.

No, this will probably be forgotten in the same moment as I turn in this review.