(Translated from Dutch)

	Band : Reverence (U.S.) Album : When Darkness Calls Release date : 31/05/2012 Label : Razar Ice Records
Tracklist:01. When Darkness Calls 02. Bleed For Me 03. Phantom Road 04. Devil In Disguise 05. Too Late 06. Gatekeeper 07. The Price You Pay 08. Sample 09. Revolution Rising 10. After The Leaves Have Fallen 11. Vengeance Is Mine

Reverence is a brand new American band, formed by veterans. The band consists of vocalist Todd Michael Hall and bassist Ned Meloni (both Jack Starr’s Burning Starr), former Tokyo Blade guitarist Bryan Holland, former Sanxtion guitarist Pete Rossi and drummer Steve Wacholz, best known for Savatage, but also a blue moon in Crimson Glory. The musical direction seems so at this stage established, this should be sturdy traditional heavy (power?) Metal on their supply. To find out, I quickly listen to When Darkness Calls.That the aforementioned bands, along with a bunch of other classics, can be found in the sound of Reverence will not be surprised (as has The Price You Pay quite Savatage content). Once the intro of opener and title track When Darkness Calls passes into the actual number is any surprise over. Initially catchy midtempo, known riffs, a nice bass and very fast drumming, obviously with the necessary double bass passages. The vocals are clean and high pitched ‘, of course.

Besides regular moderate pace in the beginning, like the first two songs, is quickly upshift to a higher rate, which might as well controlled. Sometimes one is already in top gear off (Phantom Road), good for headbanging content! Oh yes, I had the choirs in the sing-along choruses already mentioned? Also an indispensable element in the brave proto-typical American heavy metal. Like the guitar’s way. It is not surprising that the implementation of the whole, these veterans, beyond any doubt. Reverence knows exactly what the lover of this kind of classic heavy metal wants to hear.

Equally predictable is the presence of the mandatory (semi) ballad, which many band attempts to improve the quality of the enamel to test, in terms of so saccharine. My opinion is that really strong metal ballads are rare, the only other album filling, as well After The Leaves Have Fallen in this case. Ouch. Just not my thing. What I also just want to say is that I have the chorus of Devil In Disguise spitting look like Anthrax’s Madhouse. But it may safely be me though.

The rest of the album I have little to complain, how predictable too. Classic heavy metal from the booklet, which you can hear a bit of this band from America. As I pointed out in my review of the latest Jack Starr’s Burning Starr Album concluded European heavy metal sound often somewhat rougher, less obedient than the American version (Too Late for example). Reverence is somewhere in between, enough power in any case to me on the speaker boxes to bind while I’m listening to the album.

Created on 07/07/2012 by Chris

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