Reverence – Review by musik an sich (DE) 17/20
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Reverence are made up of former members of the band Savatage, Riot V Tokyo Blade and Burning Starr. Alone in the enumeration of these Power Metal acts likely to most followers of the genre run the proverbial mouth water. I became aware of the band when I learned that the former Savatage drummer Steve Wacholz provides here for the rhythm.
Friends traditional Power Metal fare should write on their shopping list the album Gods Of War. The band reinvents the genre is not new, what perhaps no longer is possible, but it delivers a few songs, which fit exactly into the intersection of the aforementioned bands.
The title track opens the album with sirens, which will be replaced after a few cycles of rich rhythm riffs. The song is a midtempo steamroller that beastly fun. “Heart Of Gold” is created faster, the guitars are played here swift as an arrow, and the guitar tracks in the verses sometimes remind me a bit of Helloween. Thus, the beaten and the bridge from the US Power Metal to European-influenced power metal.
Very successful is the hymn-like “Tear Down The Mountain”. In particular, the great chorus should not soon disappear from my brain. It rather quiet tones dominated the band. “Splinter” is a ballad succeeded. Here, the great voice of singer Todd Michael Hall comes to the fullest advantage.
Gods Of War is a good album, is for me the best publications in the Power Metal Sector in 2015
