Year: 2023
Label: Dying Victims Productions
Rating: 7,8 / 10
Today we are listening to cheerful Heavy Metal from Spain! However, it sounds one hundred percent British, in particular, like TANK, and also a little like MOTÖRHEAD. All the songs on the disc consist of hard-ass “squares” and straight-line beats, thickly watered with nostalgic guitar solos. The hoarse-voiced vocalist holds almost half of the road-burned sound aesthetics. And, of course, there is the obligatory warm bass.
From MOTÖRHEAD, the Spaniards borrowed only one (well, maybe two - pay attention to the plaque at on the gladiator's belt on the cover) , but a very important quality is the so–called flow. That is, the compositions develop very consistently, without any breaks, interludes and failed gluings. In Heavy Metal, this is a critically important thing for me; when some famous bands allow themselves to insert choruses that do not fit at all with the rest of the songs, it's like a kick in the balls for me. Another plus is the invariably good mood and and liveliness of all tracks. No tearful ballads about unhappy love - only armor-piercing hits about brutal riders in chains and leather, metal gladiators and dusty hell.
In itself, all this does not mean anything. For example, there are a lot of bands playing the same thing in the roster of the good US label Shadow Kingdom Records. But here's the trouble with them: they almost always work according to AOR standards, creating such artificial and plastic that they make you vomit. IRON CURTAIN contrasts this with the very natural sound of their own studio, where real metal rings and hums, heated by the rays of the southern sun. I must honestly say that these guys are not brilliant composers at all, but they know their simple thing very well, and in their music you can find this immeasurable soulfulness that most modern bands lack.
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