Description
The British Heavy Metal band Stormzone, hailing from Northern Ireland and featuring ex-Sweet Savage drummer David Bates and vocalist John Harv Harbinson, have already kept my ears busy with their earlier discography. I have always found them quite nice to listen to, true devotees of how British Metal should sound. Seven Sins, is the bands fifth album and how much i loved their debut or their fourth album i must say that with this epos they might have released their best album to date. I would suggest that newcomer bands, whether British or not, ought take a careful and deep listen to this album, inhale its spirit, let the mind compute and then head on their way to create their Metal. On Seven Sins were travelling on a thin red line between Iron Maidens twin guitar harmonies and rhythmic artistry, and Saxons thick layered rhythm guitar work mostly simplified and straight on vocals of the British brand. Certainly, I found this record to be of the top notch mixtures between these gods of Metal. Stormzone added their stratum of blistering catchiness; every piece of chorus, even the fiercer ones, is worth writing home about. As a notable fan of simplistic rhythm guitar riffs, I was filled with utmost joy listening to such creations as Another Rainy Night, swiftly parading with 80s oriented riffing almost Hard Rock in nature. The darker image of Seven Sins also produced a pitch of low tuned riffs that asserted the heaviness level of the release. Raise The Knife and the galloping Special Brew announced their presence with nostalgia of the old days. Stormzone demonstrated that without the manifestation of mighty technical material, there is that awesome chance to win a true metalheads heart. The material’s straightforward basis enabled the guys to create tunes that would strengthen the revival of NWOBHM in a current sound setting.
Track list:
1. Bathsheba
2. Another Rainy Night
3. Your Time Has Come
4. The One That Got Away
5. I Know Your Pain
6. Seven Sins
7. You’re Not The Same
8. Raise The Knife
9. Abandoned Souls
10. Special Brew
11. Master Of Sorrow
12. Born Of The Damned