StormWarrior - Thunder & Steele

Published February 05 2014

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Genre	Heavy Metal	Lars Ramcke	Vocals
Tracks	10	Lars Ramcke	Guitar
Running time	44 Min.	Alex Guth	Guitar
Label	Massacre Records	Yenz Leonhardt	Bass
Release	24 January 2014	Jörg Uken	Drums
Country	Germany	-	Keyboard
Producer	Piet Sielck
Similar artists	---

Germany's StormWarrior returns after nearly three years with its fifth full length studio record. This band has in general not offered any icebreaking moments musically since the release of the self titled debut album in 2002. Thunder & Steele truly sounds pretty much like the band's past work and regardless of several previous line-up changes, consistency and longevity are secure articles. In this case, this is something favorable and I back up the decision to continue on an already written path.

Main man, vocalist and guitarist Lars Ramcke and his metal unit certainly stay true to what they've released earlier. It's faster guitars, eager and pounding drums and an often pretty distinct bass play from the sole Dane, Yenz Leonhardt. It's an overall scraping sound picture put on rather speedy traditional galloping heavy metal with tendencies to connect to power metal and speed metal. A captivating and straightforward approach, without any significant variation in the totality, that generates pretty much blatant classic metal plays all throughout and I can't see that nothing else ever was intended.

The band blusters through with rasping riffs and arresting metal melodies to create an almost eminent work. This release is definitely one step up the ladder from their latest album Heathen Warrior and I think that they're back on track again to conquer new territories on higher levels. They defend the realms with forceful capacity with ironclad songs on full throttle, that generally are great to awesome, and shows stability and endurance. Thunder & Steele is a close to breathtaking effort to fans of this type of metal and I surely encourage you to check out this achievement.

See also review of: Heading Northe , Northern Rage , At Foreign Shores , Stormwarrior

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	3	6	5	8

Summary
8 chalices of 10 - Tobbe