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- Band:
Christian Mistress - Duration: 00:32:59
- Available from: 28/02/2024
- Label:
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Cruz del Sur Music
How do you define a 'classic metal' disc? We believe that the answer is not at all simple and cannot pass for simple stylistic criteria, given the immense quantity of influences that even the simplest music is absolutely enclosed. In the case of Christian Mistress's “Children of the Earth”, however, we are undoubtedly in front of a group that sounds as if it were classic, very close as a much more known names in the scene such as the Tanith or even to more unknown formations such as the Riders of Rohan and which seems to have finally found the right direction in which to go.
Absent from the scenes for nine years, ours had been noticed to have come before the others to that synthesis of Hard'n'Heavy Made in the USA with a brace of records (“Agony & Opium”, from 2010, and “Possession”, from 2012), and then disappeared after having released “to your Death” in 2015.
The quartet, which sees Christine Davis in the front row behind the microphone, has its foundations around the battery of Reuben W Storey, already behind the skin of many formations of the Washington area, with the incendere Heavy given by Jonny Wulf's below and to Tim Diedrich's guitar work, the latest arrived in formation. It will be that the band, except for the guitarist, has been stable since 2008, but one feels that there is one of all a magic alchemy, capable of transposing from the first “City of Gold”, the land promised to the “Children of the Earth” which give the name to the album.
Above all, echoes of Judas Priest, but also of that Heavy born beyond the Atlantic, appear in pieces such as “Voiceless” or in the incalzante “Mythmaker”, where Davis has the opportunity to show off all his skill as a singer, perfectly able to give the pieces an epic and almost sacred touch.
Hard rock influences are particularly ski in the solos, with references here and there to Ritchie blackmore of the Rainbow, while we are told a story based on the concept we mentioned earlier.
Too bad that this album lasts only half an hour poor, which allows the Christian Mistress to say everything they want without ever boring the listener – who is seen closing the work in front with the final and rightly obscure “Shadow”, based on a refrain that cannot fail to capture your attention, also for the charismatic voice of the singer.
At the end of this old school ride, reached the land promised by the band, we can only greet the return of the Christian Mistress with approval on the scenes, even if perhaps we would have expected something more in terms of minute, given the goodness of the proposal: we hope that the quality of their works continues to remain on this path and that perhaps this allows him to find us in the old continent!
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
