Saber - Without Warning (2021)

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Saber - Without Warning (2021)

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Saber - Without Warning (2021)

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Year : 2021
Style : Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 70 mb


Bio:

Heavy Metal band from Los Angeles, California.New Year, New Beginning...In a stroke of marketing genius, a Los Angeles based entry in the global NWOTHM sweepstakes, Saber, issued their Without Warning debut as clocks hit midnight, New Year's Eve. "Had to do something different, to shake off the crust of 2020," says Saber.Like every other band on the planet, the pandemic has put a temporary squash on vinyl production (raw materials and the available plants limited by shipments, workers and nightmare logistics creating a backlog of demand, with virtually no product) so January 1st, pre-orders for the eventual collector's item vinyl will be taken, via the band's Facebook page and Bandcamp, while digital downloads are instantly available, along with Pit Forge designed, album artwork merch.The album was recorded on Trevor (Haunt / Hysteria) Church's label and in addition to helping the band record the eight songs (a half dozen newbies, plus reprises of pre-release singles "Strike Of The Witch" and "Speed Racer"), he also plays drums.

Album:

Released on New Year's Day without fanfare, preamble or "warning" is Saber's such named debut full-length, comprised of eight tracks over half an hour of fiery and hard-driving, non-stop classic heavy metal, available digitally, as well as on CD and shoe box cassette. Although, if I had a nickel for every time an album started with anvil clangs and thunder strikes, would be rich as Croesus.What's more, said opener, "Storm of Steel", possesses same title as anterior Nightstryke LP/song, from as early as November. For that matter, track names, across the board, fail to win prizes for originality or austerity; thankfully, their heartfelt and genial, mid-paced, much improved musicianship - since last year's Strike of the Witch EP (and rather ho-hum, banal flip-side in "Speed Racer", now Without Warning's anti-climatic closer) - is sure to garner round of applause, alongside phonetically expanding fan base, between here and quintet's headquarters down in The Big Orange, yonder.Once again, the low entropy, robust battery makes heady use of a murkily swampy production which relegates front man Steven Villa's wildly ranged, upper strata meanderings to various shades of prominence. Whereas he sounds somewhat unsteady and wavering on "Storm of Steel", its equally fast-wired, yet unremarkable, successor, "Without Warning" proper - on both, the instrumentation also harks to Saber's Finnish counterparts - and aforementioned, most generic "Speed Racer", manages to round the bend with vigour, as time goes by.Granted, for a band with three guitarists, things feel relatively organized and in-check. Aside from perhaps less innovative or ground-breaking riffing/drumming formulas at beginning and end of WW, the trio settles itself in quite smoothly once the prosaically captioned "Midnight Rider" takes its place on the podium. The Thin Lizzy-ish chorus adds a nice element of 70s rockiness, whilst the sweetly piercing, patiently finger-tapped lead demonstrates discipline and restraint; solos are kept to a standard minimum - don't go in expecting crazed or monolithic, "re-born style" lead trades offs.The bass and drums thwack in a plumply orotund, thick and well-rounded manner, evocative of fellow Los Angelino bards Blade Killer; as for vocals and guitars, am intensely reminded of Fortress, from down the road in Whittier. In this regard, the reprised "Strike of the Witch", with its killer refrain and balls-to-wall, core "\m/ factor, and follow-up, the free-wheeling "Outlaw" - which features the best Saber rattling i.e. soloing so far, in addition to fat, dominant bass line - take the cake. (Ergo, their circle of influence and bad-ass-ery yields prerequisite madness).The super shuffling riffage to "Leather Laced Lady" (lone track name with bite) and throttling, stadium-size feel of "We'll Meet Again" would've ended Without Warning on a kick-ass high note. Alas, "Speed Racer", to my thus-far-acclimatized ears, is no more than token tepid triplicate. However, in fairness, constitutes Saber's founding single, back in August of 2019 (month a fuel tanker exploded in Tanzania, if my apocalyptic almanac is correct). Either way, this a terrific album to crank in midst of bottled-nosed crosstown traffic and/or full-blown, I-5 highway rampaging...

Line-Up:

Steven Villa - Vocals - See also: Lethal Night, ex-Skeptor, ex-Omery Rising
Dave Sanchez - Bass -See also: Aleph Naught, Greves, Hellrazor, Iskariot, ex-Grooms of the Stool, ex-Bloodwritten
Charles Dang - Guitars - See also: Dire Castle, Epyon, Trapmaker
Jesus Decay - Guitars

Production:

Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By, Drums – Trevor William Church

Tracklist:

01. Storm of Steel (03:59)
02. Without Warning (04:16)
03. Midnight Rider (04:35)
04. Strike of the Witch (03:44)
05. Outlaw (03:46)
06. Leather Laced Lady (02:35)
07. We'll Meet Again (02:47)
08. Speed Racer (03:37)


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