Year : 2015
Style : Heavy Metal , Power Metal
Country : Greece
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 117 mb
Bio:
DIVINER is a heavy metal band from Greece founded by long-time friends and music partners Yiannis Papanikolaou (vocals) and Thimios Krikos (guitar) in the summer of 2011.Their vision was to proudly express themselves by creating and playing something powerful, intense, deep, heavy, dark and inspired , that at the same time would sound up to date. All this without losing the elements that reflect the essence and the timeless magic of pure metal music.With this in mind , they started writing songs and in a short period of time , some of their friends and well known musicians of the local metal scene , George Maroulees (guitar), Herc Booze (bass) and Fragiskos Samoilis (drums) joined them and the band took its final form.Their sound influences cover a very wide range of metal paths having classic heavy origins and melodies, blended with modern crushing riffs, groovy rhythm sections, powerful vocals and an overall up to date approach.DIVINER's debut album "Fallen Empires" was released on November 20th 2015 in Europe and North America on CD, LP and digital. The vinyl edition of “Fallen Empires” is strictly limited to 300 copies worldwide.Mastered by Peter In de Betou [Arch Enemy, Opeth, Amon Amarth].
Album:
Greece loves heavy metal. This is known. From symphonic blackness to cheese-coated, dragon and sandal power silliness, they’re well represented as fans and performers alike. Now Diviner joins the eternal fight to defend the faith with their Fallen Empires debut, weaponizing a kind of traditional metal with deep roots in the mid-80s American scene. Eschewing most Euro-power frills and fruit paste, the band pledges fealty to the gritty style pioneered by the likes of Manowar, Jag Panzer and Helstar, and continued by new generation warriors like Iced Earth and Visigoth. This approach means you can count on three things: the music will strive for righteous trveness, it’ll pack plenty of muscle, and there’s absolutely nothing here you couldn’t have heard during the Reagan Presidency. Call it chronic nostalgia or stubborn narrow-mindedness, but I’m comfortable with all three conditions.The title track kicks off the war march in rousing style with meaty, crunchy riffs and gravelly, Dio-light vocals from Yiannis Papanikolaou. Their style reminds me a lot of Remnants of War era Helstar with some Visigoth mixed in for added nutsack. It’s no-frills and extremely direct but it works like a charm. The solos sound as if they were lifted off Painkiller and everything screams classic metal. And they never leave the little niche they build for themselves as becomes apparent on fist-raising, unicorn gelding anthems like “Kingdom Come” and “Evilizer.”“Riders From the East” injects tasty Maiden gallops and guitar harmonies into an epic tune full of battle lust, perfect for sacking nearby strip malls, and “The Legend Goes On” goes heavy on the Manowar cliches and testosterone with solid results. The wildly inappropriate ESL stumble “Come Into My Glory” will likely earn many unintentional guffaws live, but it’s a solid tune with a good chorus despite exceptionally cheesy lyrics like “mystic signs are calling from places so magic, you won’t believe your eyes,” which I assume refers to Disneyland. Elsewhere “Seven Gates” delivers a thick, Iced Earth riff attack and some urgent vocals from Yiannis.There are no bad songs here and the level of writing is impressive over the course of the album’s 50 minutes. The songs are all simple in design but effectively build to good or very good choruses while featuring solid riffs, harmonies and hooks. You can tell the band worships this kind of metal and that love bleeds out in every note. That’s why this is a deceptive album. On first blush it’s such a simple, meat and taters metal platter that it’s easy to dismiss, but it quickly worms its way into your good graces and earns more spins than you’d expect.This is a very guitar dominated album and the ready-to-rumble riff work makes the songs hum and pop. Thimios Krikos and George Maroulees deserve credit for keeping the energy level high though most of the material is mid-tempo. They manage this by crafting one classic metal riff after another, each guaranteed to unsheathe the Sword of Poser Intimidation. Though they keep things pretty heavy, there are the inevitable nods to the NWoBHM in the riff-work, especially Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Yiannis Papanikolaou’s vocals are the perfect grease for the 80s war machine, sounding like a mix of Dio and later period Eric Adams (Manowar). He gives the music sufficient grit and spit to make even exceedingly corny lyrics sound tough and sincere, and he’s skilled at elevating his delivery for the big, rabble rousing choruses.
Line-Up:
Yiannis Papanikolaou - Vocals (2011-present) - See also: ex-Growing Order, ex-Battleroar, ex-InnerWish
George Maroulees - Guitars
Thimios Krikos - Guitars (2011-present) - See also: Harry Loisios, InnerWish, ex-Growing Order
Herc Booze - Bass
Fragiskos Samoilis - Drums - See also: InnerWish, ex-X-Piral
Tracklist:
01. Fallen Empires
02. Kingdom Come
03. Evilizer
04. Riders From The East
05. The Legend Goes On
06. Come Into My Glory
07. Seven Gates
08. The Shadow And The Dark
09. Sacred War
10. Out In The Abyss
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