(Translated from Italian)
Score
- Genere: Heavy Metal
- Etichetta: Razar Ice Records
- Anno: 2012
- Sito Web: Reverence Official
Track Listing
01. When Darkness Calls 05:00
02. Bleed For Me 04:10
03. Phantom Road 03:47
04. Devil In Disguise 04:31
05. Too Late 05:16
06. Gatekeeper 03:55
07. The Price You Pay 04:19
08. Monster 04:53
09. Revolution Rising 05:26
10. After The Leaves Have Fallen 03:35
11. Vengeance Is Mine 04:05
From a training consists of experienced musicians in bands like Tokyo Blade, Jack Starr’s Burning Star and Savatage (there Steve Wacholz) What can you expect? Obviously it is healthy and rock heavy metal, so much so that it is able to throw your heart over the obstacle and involved from the first listen.
The style is closer to the classic American metal, with a bit of power approachable (back) to Metalium more body or Brainstorm. Just listen to the opening entrusted to the title track to have everything clear: powerful vocals, background vocals that push in the choruses, rhythmic base arrembante and square, plus the absolute and constant presence as a protagonist of the guitar (played by Pete Smith and Bryan Holland) , always on the shields with sharp riffs and solos stuck firmly in the structure.
The manual of the “good metalhead” is explained with skills also in the subsequent tracks, with the solid up time “Devil In Disguise” (in which the proximity of the Vicious Rumors is very exaggerated) and the fastest “Phantom Road”, while into the more melodic and development of “Too Late” is not difficult to find certain elements of the same Savatage and Metal Church.
As I said the set is of great quality, especially thanks to an excellent vocal performance by Todd Michael Hall, ripping applause for extension and interpretation, but also a production yields almost perfect that never left the “pasta” right to ‘together.
“Gatekeeper” come to confirm all thanks to his gait by Judas Priest Americanized, with a riff bearing from pure classic metal and an opening in the choir as a true anthem eighties. The rest is not far behind, with the epic and aggressive “Revolution Rising” to make the best picture and the finale of “Vengeance Is Mine” to close a tracklist that it is impossible to find a time of falling.
A debut that one can not consider more than positive and that if it were not for the way far too which relies on what has been done by the giants of American metal mentioned above, also deserved a higher valuation.
