Savage Master – Dark & ​​Dangerous

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7.5

• Band:
  Savage Master
• Duration: 00:38:43
• Available from: 28/03/2025
• Label:

• Shadow Kingdom Records

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If with “Those Who Hunt At Night” of 2022 the Savage Master tried to have reached a more decisive and recognizable identity, compared to the recent past, inside the absent contemporary panorama of the more traditional Heavy Metal, with the new “Dark & ​​Dongous” the Kentucky quintet really center.
After the production problems of the first three works and consolidated a definitive sound already with the previous album, it can be said that with the fifth record chapter the Stacey Savage group has found the suitable formula to shine, accompanying the aesthetic forced to Kitsch and 'cheap' of the artwork that is well reconciled with the underground, ironic and irreverent attitude that has always characterized its music.
Fortunately, these are not only factors related to the image: the music of the Savage Master today no longer tries only to re -propose the recurring patterns of the musical genre to which it belongs, but also tries to affect vocal melodies that leave their mark, fishing with full hands with a gritty and melodic Heavy Metal Metal of the mid -eighties from the dark and comic book imagination (the discs of Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy. With Jake E. Lee), to which is added the rhythmic simplification of the Mötley Crüe of “Shout at the Devil”, against which, among the songs that appear in the lineup, there is often more than one reference.
The performance of Stacey Savage on the rumor that growls, sighs and gives such a wild touch to the fastest songs (“Warriors Call”, “When the Twilight Meets the Dawn”), as sensual to the more melodic ones, is accompanied by the remarkable taste of the solo guitar of Larry Myers, who in “Screams from Cellar” allows the group to reach, of caded pathos and arpeggios, levels never touched by them in the past. If the latter is one of the best songs of the lot, the splendid “Devil's Child” and “Never Ending Fire” are no less.
Unfortunately, not all the songs reach the peaks of the episodes just mentioned but, fortunately, where a less inspired and particularly cyntationist writing (as in “Devil Rock”, “Black Rider” or “I Never Wanna Fall in Love”) is peeked, the interpretation of ours to give the whole more than dignified aspect with the conquered ability of the musicians to do everything they touch.
Finally, closes the dances, the fine Power Ballad “Cold Hearted Death”, who manages to give a touch of depth to an album that, all in all, flows fast enough, with more convincing songs than they had accustomed us in the past, played with the usual overwhelming passion.
“Dark & ​​Dangerous”, therefore, adds merit to a band with a ten -year career than to the beginning, and for three record releases, he had not impressed the criticism but which over time has become, both in the studio and live, a reality increasingly respected by the fans of Heavy Metal Metal Ottantian, who seem to particularly like their dark, sensual, light -hearted approach. arrogant.