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| 3.7 great | Voivod STAFF | December 30th 14 |
First of all, huge props are in order for Helstar, as along with bands such as Vicious Rumors and Sanctuary, they keep US tech power/thrash metal alive, to the utmost joy of genre fanboys like yours truly. Now about the new album; Twisted Wicked Nest starts ideally with three tracks of expertly executed and insanely aggressive tech power/thrash. Along with the said genres, some progressive metal passages have been slipstreamed here and there, hinting at the '80s Helstar classic Nosferatu minus its sub-par sound. About the latter, This Wicked Nest is nothing but superb. The album is a joy to jam, however it looses some merit because there are no real surprises musically, whereas the use of the prog metal elements is not so thoughtful given the band's great potential. On the other hand, the huge plus of the album is that the pure power metal - and borderline uninteresting - parts of Glory of Chaos, are completely gone here. On another note, the vocals of James Rivera sound fantastic, although he does struggle at times in delivering his trademark high pitch whenever and wherever is necessary.
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| 4.5 superb | ChaoticVortex | April 22nd 15 |
In their eighth album Helstar embraces their thrash metal side more then ever, resulting in their most agressive, technical and accomplished album. The production and James Rivera's vocals are also killer.
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| 3.2 good | Trey STAFF | September 8th 14 |
Kind of a step back from 'Glory of Chaos'. That album kind of brought the band into the modern era. This album returns some of that 80s power prog. Not a terrible thing, but a little disappointing.
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| 3.5 great | Fernando Alves STAFF | July 6th 14 |
Glory of Chaos meets Nosferatu. Solid but not outstanding.
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| 2.5 average | Mitch | June 6th 23 |
| 2.5 average | remi | May 1st 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Unitron | September 3rd 19 |
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