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Bloodbound - Unholy Cross

Label: AFM
Format: CD download
Released: 2011
Reviewed By: Mark Gromen
Rating: 7.5/ 10


Swedes have had problems keeping a vocalist for more than one successive album, including an on & off relationship with former Tad Morose singer Urban Breed (who appears on the "Nosferatu" debut and disc #3). More than two years on since the release of "Tabula Rasa", the Olsson twin guitarists (Tomas and Henrik) have opted for Patrik Johansson, not to be confused with countryman Nils Patrik Johansson (Astral Doors, Wuthering Heights, Lions Share).

 

Quality meat & potatoes traditional/power metal played out over eleven lively numbers featuring high pitched vocals. Beefy bottom end thump on the title cut, a staccato riffing ‘Drop The Bomb’ and ‘Message From Hell’. A mid-tempo, fist thrusting ‘In For The Kill’ will do well on the open-air festival circuit, capable of keeping time without spilling one’s beer! ‘Brothers Of War’ begins acoustically, while fret burners should check out the HammerFall reminiscent ‘Together We Fight’ or similarly quick ‘In The Dead Of The Night’. Good stuff.

 
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