Black Sword Thunder Attack – Black Sword Thunder Attack

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When not remorse throws out a new debut there is always the proverbial antennas to be said, especially if it is an Epic Metal album produced by a formation from Greece, a land that lately seems to represent a kind of authentic casket of wonders, at least if we talk about the more combative and evocative vein of the classic metal.
The EP “March of the Damned” of the Black Sword Thunder Attack, released in 2020, had already aroused the curiosity of many fans Defender, and we are very pleased to find three extracts in the tracklist of their first full-attitized full-length. Among these, there is also the second track “Don't Hear the Sirens”, ambassador of a cure for the melodic sector who exists from the first vagite of this mysterious reality, which would also seem to exist from well before the release of the two products mentioned in these lines, according to the exit dates of the first demo.
On a musical level, the band does not accept compromises, drawing fully from the inkwell of people such as Warlord and Manowar, to pack a work that aims to pay homage and re -propose those that are the authentic and original styles of epic heavy metal. Indeed, we do not struggle to recognize features that only a band that aims at the lovers would use: the fun factor is in fact present, but the compositions are quite cultured and refined, without executive excesses or briefs off, if not that essential aimed at enhancing the pieces.
The predominant timing never accelerates beyond a certain speed, leaving in the whole a cadenced and evocative dimension, and there is no instrumental proselytism; Indeed, no element ever stands too much above the others, although not lacking phases in which certain components become protagonists: the acoustic drifts and from the Hellenic aftertaste of “On the way to Acheron” are a clear example of this, as well as the pressing rhythmic of “Anvils of War” and the refrains of the engaging “Evil Sorcery”, where the female female of the Vocalist Mareike cannot that being the diadem of an attractive interpretation, which persists throughout listening.
Although the care with which the band has been able to mix the musical and themes influences of its land, also present in texts and titles, has really convinced us, we are pleased to note shades more in line with the most imaginative Epic Metal, and listening to “Last Flight of the Eagle” it is impossible not to turn a thought at the late William J. Tsamis, leader of those Warlords themselves. They clearly play the role of main inspirers, even like his lesser -known creature, namely the Lordian Guard.
To avoid a perhaps slightly long tracklist and some repeated solution, the result is indeed well beyond the convincing: the pieces are really interesting and well written, as well as produced with the evident desire to play in the manner of the historical works of the bands taken in an example, without however highlighting an artificial or archaic semblance. All with that freshness given by a female voice, which can really make the difference in cases like this, considering that we are talking about a genre historically focused on the figures of Frontman men, and therefore proponents of an inevitably less bright interpretation.
It is no coincidence that we use this term, as there is certainly darkness in the atmospheres evoked in these forty minutes, in which, however, it is a clean and elegant epic, even when everything deviates in territories at the limit of the infernal, as in the case of the initial “Black Sword” or of the shorter “Master of Hell”, confirming a compositional taste that directly aims to extract the light from the darkness, which perhaps must still develop to develop to develop Well.
Although, in this first official full-length, everything is already sparkling and full of a potential to say the least enviable; This can only make us stay on the attention pending new material by a reality that must necessarily come out, and that we are sure will soon be able to appear among the new avant -garde of the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal.