Perhaps this stuff is just getting harder to stomach for me -- so sillily shrill and triumphant -- but the more palpable problem with this particular pile of power-metal not-quite-mastery is how much it suffers from blandness via aping. Helloween+Iron Maiden bitin' is immediately overt and firmly implanted, and they get stuck in a somewhat soulless by-the-book box where they don't bother to reveal much identity of their own or attempt any exciting new extremes; plus they can go pretty hard on the sillily shrill. But as with most anything speedy and vociferous and riffy and competently catchy, it offers up an enjoyable enough ride with adequate balladry-n-cooldown skillz. Also noted as relevant was the rockin' coinage of a nickname for the leaders of our "21st century corrupted supremacy" ("Freedom Eaters") followed up by the so-cold so-sad droop of us all "going down, down, down to the world unknown". But 4 real, listen up when singer-man says "former gods" on "Iscariot", then go listen to Helloween's "Twilight of the Gods". Another track name on here: "Envy of the Gods".
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