Iron Savior - The Landing

Published November 20 2011

*=Staff's pick	Descending The Savior* Starlight* March Of Doom* Heavy Metal Never Dies Moment In Time Hall Of The Heroes R.U. Ready Faster Than All* Before The Pain No Guts, No Glory

Genre	Power Metal	Piet Sielck	Vocals
Tracks	11	Piet Sielck	Guitar
Running time	48 Min.	Joachim "Piesel" Küstner	Guitar
Label	AFM Records	Jan S. Eckert	Bass
Release	18 November 2011	Thomas Nack	Drums
Country	Germany	-	Keyboard
Producer	Piet Sielck
Similar artists	Gamma Ray, Metalium

German power metallers Iron Savior are back after four years, trying to repair the damage made to this band with the release of Megatropolis. A letdown and their only album up to date that hasn't been good. Main man Piet Sielck has gathered his troops again and bassist Jan S. Eckert is back in the band again after nine years of absence, making me look back at the Condition Red album with joy and dream of their past and great times. So let's see if they're back on track again.

Don't act surprised now, but this album contains typical German power metal with fast harmonic melodies. Mr. Sielck's trademarked production is as always present as well.

So what on earth could make this album better than their last? First: The songs themselves are in fact much better with cool and catchy melodies. Second: The riffing hits you harder and this feels like Iron Savior again. I would say that Megatropolis got so much, and well deserved, negative criticism, so taking one or two steps back and one step forward is necessary to keep this band going again.

It's not their best work ever, but many songs sticks like glue and after listening to this album several times, I feel like I can listen to it yet another time. Even if many songs sound alike I don't feel it has lack of diversity, since fast songs are mixed with catchy or heavier songs. We also get some standard German lyrical debacles with Heavy Metal Never Dies and R.U. Ready. Why do so many European bands praise heavy metal in the lyrics? On the other hand, March Of Doom, has a serious theme about mankind, so I guess we're even.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	5	7	7	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Tobbe