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- Band:
Saber - Duration: 00:28:46
- Available since: 07/02/2025
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Roar! Rock of Angels Records
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The Sabers return to the scenes with a twenty-eight minutes full-length four years after the debut “Without Warning”, after heating more than one stage, from special guest, to veterans of the caliber of Andv, Sacred Reich and new protagonists of the NWothm such as Night Demon, Silver Talon, Screamer and Haunt.
Precisely to the latter and their leader the history of the Sabers is linked: active since 2018, it was the multi -instrumentalist Trevor William Church (Beastmaker, Haunt and owner of the Church Records) who favored its training and actually acting to young musicians producing in full , during the Pandemic peak of 2020, their first album, also playing the batteries. Although the young Losangelini have passed on the RPM ROAR roster, we find Church at production, but this time behind the skins he sits Jesus Decay, rhythmic guitarist of the previous album passed to the drums after the entry into the formation of the soloist Antonion Pettinato.
“Lost in Flames” is a work without frills, and the cover is the ideal manifesto: the aesthetic adopted by the musicians is unequivocal and the music is influenced by it to the bone. In fact, among the songs there is the impetuosity of all those Heavy Metal groups with a glam touch that in the early 1980s trampled on the Sunset Boulevard (Quiet Riot and very first Motley Cruue, to make a couple of names) but there is no shortage of references To some label companions, the British tailgunners above all, especially for the essential and aggressive riffing, with the harsh and very high guitars in the mix, and the cantat of Dave Sanchez who recalls in the highest points of the overseas colleague.
Given these premises, it is a real shame that in addition to the performance of impeccable executive qualities and a mnemonic knowledge of the clichés of the breed Speed Metal, the Sabers put very little of staff: fast and puffing songs such as “Lost in flames” and “Steel Breaker”, or the most road “Madame Dangerous” and “On the Hunt” with lots of street gang choirs, even appear ordinary for a movement, that of the NWothm, in which a certain sound inspired by tutelary gods that They made the repetition of some styles an act of faith.
His short duration, then, does not help “Lost in Flames” to take off, considering that all the episodes move more or less on the same tracks, and sorry that “Shadow of You”, the sole song with a slow arpered introduction, I do not sink to the most atmospheric shores of a Power Ballad that could have offered color to the Saber monocorde proposal.
“Lost in Flames” is a pleasant record recommended for the most obstinate lovers of the genre, played and produced as per tradition, but without any peak of excellence that makes it possible to distinguish the Sabers in the endless horizon of Heavy Metal bands, good at playing but not yet able to contribute within a scene with songs that guarantee them a place of honor in the underground.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM