Year : 2014
Style : Power Metal , Thrash Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 169 mb
Bio:
Savage Messiah was formed in London in 2007 out of a desire and dedication to creating 100% Heavy Metal music.The band consists of Dave Silver on lead guitar and vocals, Joff Bailey on lead guitar, Stefano Selvatico on bass and Andrea Gorio on drums.In the 6 years since forming, the band has achieved respectable successes, having had two worldwide official releases and one independent ep, in that time working with Grammy nominated producer Chris Tsangarides (Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson) and more recently Scott Atkins (Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Amon Amarth). The band has also picked up notable touring credentials having supported Overkill on a full European tour in 2010, supporting Evile in the UK and picking up shows with Death Angel, Queensryche, Skeletonwitch, Sylosis, Onslaught etc…and has appeared at UK festivals including Bloodstock Open Air, Hammerfest, Devilstone Open Air, Hellfire Festival and played headlining shows in the UK and Europe.The first recorded output from Savage Messiah was the independently produced and financed ep “Spitting Venom” in 2007, distributed via Plastic Head. The e.p achieved moderate acclaim with Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic.com stating “[Savage Messiah] is arguably more imaginative and dynamically versatile than that of many, more experienced, and better funded thrashing contemporaries. More original, too“summarizing “it shouldn’t be long before Savage Messiah are signed to a more supportive label infrastructure“Ultimately “Spitting Venom” scored the band a recording contract with independent metal specialists Candlelight Records (Emperor, Opeth) who released the bands first full length album “Insurrection Rising” in 2009. Produced by Chris Tsangarides and mixed and engineered by Scott Atkins, “Insurrection Rising” is a massive leap in terms of production and song writing and earned the band high praise from all corners of the metal world.After touring had ceased in support of “Insurrection…” the band opted to move to Earache Records for the release of the 2012 album “Plague of Conscience”. Once again working with Scott Atkins, “Plague of Conscience” is a more polished affair with once again noticeable improvements being made in the song writing and performance departments. Metal Hammer in the UK awarded the album 8/10 and Burrrn Magazine in Japan gave the band an unprecedented 95/100 score. The band and label initially opted to give the album away as a free download, achieving over 42,000 downloads in the first week!In September 2012 the band shot a debut promo for the track “All Seeing I”. In promoting the video, the band appeared on the front page of Vevo in the USA and to date has attracted well over 130,000 hits since release.2014 holds the release of the new album 'The Fateful Dark' through Earache Records on the 10th March, a UK tour with Soulfly starting February 24th.
Album:
Within the concrete jungles of the world, corroded system laying mankind down to waste, engraving corruption on the walls of eternity, scattering the seed of hate and desperation, a cursed earth, awaiting for the final countdown for a cleansing that someday will sweep like a swarm. Apocalyptic visions have been usually exploited as a red beacon, a warning and marker for what can be rendered as an avoidable future. While everything is open for interpretation, I figured that the British SAVAGE MESSIAH had their teeth sink deep in the social infrastructure, attempting to create an understanding of the deterioration around us, while divulging their British Metal roots with a fistful of attitude. Possibly one of the seamless fusions between NWOBHM with Speed / Thrash Metal, SAVAGE MESSIAH have been perfecting their methods into becoming highly artistic alongside delivering a chugged heaviness with a melodic piquancy. Continuing the same diligent musical aspiration of the previous album, SAVAGE MESSIAH unleashed their next mastery “The Fateful Dark”, virtually reciting and accentuating everything I adore about Metal music.Extensively covering the entire classic Metal grounds up towards the outsets of Thrash Metal al’a old British emblems in the manner of XENTRIX and HAMMER, yet also caressing the crusts of ARTILLERY and several pointers of the Bay Area Thrash mania, SAVAGE MESSIAH battered with deadly sophistication, paving a kind of songwriting that will cajole your mindset into a mosh headbang, letting you blow off some steam due to its hammering heaviness, while also pandering your thought patterns with their melodic creativity and penetrating texts. Frankly, in comparison to the previous “Plague Of Conscience”, this here album struck me as Thrashier, and it didn’t bother. Furthermore, I was emblazoned by the guitar work and tightness of the band’s rhythm section. Dave Silver and Joff Bailey, other than smashing with meaty rhythm guitar riffery, divulged their immense shredding incendiary licks and tricks, exchanging the spotlight with gruesome discharges of pandemonium. On vocals I was surprised by Silver’s developed singing Stefano Selvatico and Andrea Gorio (freshly in the lineup) punching hard as the best of them out there, representing a one hell of backbone for this band, so accurate and hard as steel, crushing with might.“Live as One Already Dead”, even if not being the toughest on the bunch, not as if I was precisely looking for the roughest bastardized song in line, a charming semi ballad, one might argue as one of the Thrash ballads like TESTAMENT’s renowned “The Legacy”, a notion that I can abide by actually, yet I perceived this track as one of the earnest turnouts that this band had since its formation. Silver shines with such an emotive vocal performance, his best in the album as far as I can tell. The riffing is exponential, addictive, memorable, somewhat dramatic and gradually pinched something from within. “Cross of Babylon” evidencing SAVAGE MESSIAH’s musical expansion within the boundaries of Heavy to Thrash Metal, devastating with high octane speed and mid tempo guitar palm muted parades of grandeur. Sheer IRON MAIDENish harmonies engraved within the riffs, a charming turnout, not forgetting the band’s country’s profound Metal heritage, combined with a simple chorus that carved in stone. “Hellblazer” crossing swords with Euro Power Metal for just a tad bit, instigating Heavy and Speed Metal to its command, a straight to the point, forthright, finding its marker rather rapidly, great chorus leaving a taste for more. “Zero Hour”, the dawning of everything that one holds dear, letting the apocalypse slide in, like a segment out of a bigger picture, heavy chugger with definite guitar riffery, amazing pre chorus in line for the song’s title as if praised by marching armies. Possibly another example of SAVAGE MESSIAH artistic nature of creating a shimmering mixture of Metal’s finest.With or without the covers for classics bands such IRON MAIDEN, MOTORHEAD and DIAMOND HEAD, “The Fateful Dark” supplied my passion for this kind of Metal robustness. SAVAGE MESSIAH employed their talents to prolong the authority of their previous discography, no doubt one of the best Metal bands of nowadays that are true to their form.
Line-Up:
Stefano Selvatico Bass - See also: ex-Penthagon
Andrea Gorio Drums - See also: ex-Cadaveric Crematorium
Joff Bailey Guitars
Dave Silver Vocals, Guitars - See also: ex-Headless Cross, The Purge
Matt "Mira" Scott Bass (2014-present) - See also: ex-Monument
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. Iconocaust
02. Minority of One
03. Cross of Babylon
04. Hellblazer
05. Live as One Already Dead
06. The Fateful Dark
07. Zero Hour
08. Hammered Down
09. Scavengers of Mercy
10. The Cursed Earth
Bonus CD2:
01. Be Quick Or Be Dead (Iron Maiden cover)
02. Lightning to the Nations (Diamond Head cover)
03. Killers (Motorhead cover)
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