Lonewolf - The Fourth And Final Horseman (Digipak Edition) (2013)

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Lonewolf - The Fourth And Final Horseman (Digipak Edition) (2013)

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Lonewolf - The Fourth And Final Horseman (Digipak Edition) (2013)

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Year : 2013
Style : Speed Metal , Heavy Metal , Power Metal
Country : France
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 168 mb


Bio:

Lonewolf is a French power metal band formed by Jens and Walkyr in 1993. Lonewolf comes from the French south east city, Grenoble. The band was born in 1993 to split first in 1996.3 recordings were made during this era :The Dark Throne, 1992 tape just made to find some local gigs, was not distributed (Chris/Bass & Walkyr/Drums) The Calling, 1993 tape (Félix Börner/Lead guitar, Roland/Bass & Walkyr/Drums) Holy Evil, 1996 EP (Félix Börner/Drums, Stefan/Lead guitar & Roland/Bass). In 1996, the album "Children of the Unlight" was recorded, but it was never released. For 4 years, Lonewolf disappeared. In 2000 the band reformed with a self-produced full length CD, "March into the Arena".Thanks to this CD, Lonewolf became the first French metal band to play in Greece (Heavy Metal Holocaust in Athens) and to open for the very first gig of Grave Digger in France.Their second album was released in 2003, named Unholy Paradise. Their partnership with GOIMusic ended after the release of this second album.In 2008 their third album, Made in Hell was released by Greek label "Eat Metal Records", mixed and mastered by Eike Freese (from Dark Age) in Heike Studio, Hamburg.

Album:

It’s unfortunate that French heavy metal band Lonewolf’s sixth studio album had to be next on Happy Metal Guy’s reviewing list right after he reviewed this. But well, it’s too bad—that’s just how life is. When life splashes lemonade on you, use a pail to collect every drop of it dutifully, obtain citric acid crystals from it and use them to produce pesticide. Then, spray life in the face with the pesticide. So maybe Lonewolf should try to be as joyous and forward-looking as Happy Metal Guy and spin this meh review in their favor. Anyway, thanks to overwhelming carry-over effects this time round, not even a one-year break would have saved The Fourth and Final Horseman from the gallows.With a style as overdone and ancient as heavy metal, it’s never going to be easy to stand out from the crowd when a band adopts it. Sadly, this record is another one of those that has “forgettable” spelled all over its visual, lyrical and sonic faces. Lonewolf may pride itself on being a true-to-the-bone heavy metal band—their band members are clad in black leather and have long manes, the band logo tries to be symmetrical (only the ‘L’ and ‘f’ are), their lyrics deal with the occult, darkness, blah blah blah—but their particular manifestation of heavy metal just doesn’t work in this day and age.For the music, the only thing that mildly catches one’s attention is the vocals, and this is a bad thing, because the guitar riffs and lead guitar solos are typically the catchiest part of traditional heavy metal music. Lead vocalist Jens Börner has a rough singing voice that utilizes vibrato often, and together with frequent bouts of group singing, the vocals give the overall music a nice retro feel; nothing wrong in this department apart from it sounding too unvaried and dull at times. The guitars, however, sound too straightforward and hence, predictable. Sure, their riffs n’ solos may sound decently melodic, but they neither play around with rhythmic patterns enough nor engage in polyphonic conversations with the bass guitar. As a result, despite their melodiousness, they still end up sounding rather one-dimensional.The lyrics make mention of dark and scaaaary stuff like war, death, hell, dragons, skulls and wolves; though an angel is mentionedLone Wolf somewhere inside, probably to sooth the gravely spooked hearts of innocent and evil-fearing people like Happy Metal Guy. For example, there’s an utterly Manowar-ish song called “Time for War”, which has cheesy lines such as “Time for war! And time for glory!” that wouldn’t sound out of place in a Thor movie. And honestly, the guitar solo in this song sounds eargasmic, though the aural pleasure it induces is somewhat besmirched by the numerous eye-rolling proclamations of “Time for war!”Oh, the horrible artwork. The album title is placed in a really awkward position (and “final horseman” is strangely printed in larger font than the preceding words… what’s the purpose of this emphasis?) and the entire thing as a whole would look much better without the huge-ass band logo obscuring so much of the bottom-half of the artwork. The only positive thing to note about it is that the skeletal design of the horseman is apt, since the fourth horseman of the Christians’ idea of the Apocalypse is supposed to symbolize “Death”. But hey, if praising an accurate depiction of something is the only thing worth noting about the artwork, it really says a lot about its visual appeal.While the music isn’t too shabby, the cover artwork design and lyrics are—especially the latter. Playing traditional heavy metal nowadays is perfectly fine, but please don’t write lyrics based on romanticized concepts of humanity’s raison d’être and seem like you’re actually taking it seriously. So you wrote about a harbinger of the Apocalypse of Christian lore? Puh-leeze! Writing about, say, Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy 75 million years ago, would have been something fresher and more fitting for the 21st century. Also, that would have instantly made Tom Cruise a fan and, by word-of-mouth, every alien in the observable universe one too!

Line Up:

Jens Börner - Vocals, Guitars (1992-1996, 2000-present)
Alex Hilbert - Vocals (backing), Bass (2006-2010), Guitars (lead) (2010-present) - See also: ex-Nightmare
Rikki Mannhard - Bass, Vocals (backing) (2010-present) - See also: ex-Altar, ex-Mystery Blue
Antoine "Tonio" Bussière - Drums (2009-present)

Tracklist:

01. The Fourth and Final Horseman 04:48
02. The Poison of Mankind 06:07
03. Hellride 03:55
04. Time for War 04:11
05. Another Star Means Another Death 04:25
06. Dragonriders 04:12
07. Guardian Angel 05:39
08. Throne of Skulls 03:53
09. The Brotherhood of Wolves 04:44
10. Destiny 07:41
11. Unknown Soldier 04:13 (Bonus Track)
12. Raise the Flag 04:33 (Bonus Track)


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