Gallow's End - Gallow's End

Published July 31 2008

*=Staff's pick	The Unborne Flag* Set The World In Flames Kingdom Of The Damned

Genre	Heavy Metal	Thord Klarström	Vocals
Tracks	3	Thord Klarström	Guitar
Runningtime	12 Min.	Peter Samuelsson	Guitar
Label		-	Bass
Release	2008	Michael Karlsson	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboard
Similar artists	---

I rarely become overly impressed by the demo-releases that are sent to me, but Gallow's End is an exception. The band is run by the multi-talented musician Thord Klarström, who's not only the song-writer, lead guitarist and vocalist - he has also produced and mixed these three songs.

Gallow's End hardly make any attempts to break any new musical ground on this release, instead they concentrate on doing what they do best, playing fast-paced heavy metal that mostly traces back to the 80s but also the 70s. Klarström's vocals are strong throughout the record but perhaps a bit too common among this type of metal to stand out as something you remember afterwards. But his vocals do fit rather nicely together with the nimble and catchy metal-cuts that he has composed - songs that have plenty of neat solos and also choruses that are easy to take a liking to.

While the opener The Unborne Flag would be my definite pick of the demo, the other two songs are certainly not bad by any means, quite the contrary. If Gallow's End were able to produce a full-length album with equally high quality in the future, I would become even more impressed.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	5	7	6	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Niklas