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Angel Sword - Rebels Beyond The Pale (2016)











Year : 2016
Style : Heavy Metal
Country : Finland
Audio : 320 kbps + front + Video
Size : 148 mb

Bio:

Rough-edged heavy metal to the bone! Angel Sword worships the heavy metal gods of old, fallen into slumber decades ago and now angered by the polished plastic sound of modern metal. Prepare for a skull-crushing, vomit-inducing invocation of NWOBHM, thrash and punk!

Album:

"Rebels Beyond the Pale" is Angel Sword's first full-length album, recorded in 2015 and released in 2016 through Underground Power Records and Heavy Chains Records.Kicking off like the Finnish answer to Algy Ward fronted Tank, with a healthy dose of raw NWOBHM and garbled vocals, the sudden high pitched yelp, in “Devastator”, was a little off-putting! Other moments, the gruff, off kilter, voice recalls the initial pair of Running Wild platters, but there's always a strong sense of headbanging melody. The northern European nation has long been a symphonic/power metal hotbed, but only recently has it begun to rival its Swedish neighbor, when it comes to a new generation of traditional minded, old school metal (Speedtrap, Ranger, Armour, etc.). The debut from this heretofore unknown Helsinki-based foursome rises towards the top of that increasingly crowded heap. A rollicking, autobiographical “Lords Of Thunder” (ode to metal fans/bands), has a clean guitar break slicing through the gang vocal chorus. Some might call it Luddite or cheesy, but as one who cut his teeth on the initial wave, love the nostalgia vibe of “Lightning Runners”, and “Lawmaker”. Most of the nine, simply constructed tracks clock in well under four minutes, with a 4:27 “Break The Chains” being the lengthiest ("Spikes & leather at Heaven's gate, by the force of metal, we'll break the chains"). Just four seconds shorter, the disc ending “Witches Never Die” is, paradoxically, a slow (military cadence drumming directed) ballad/dirge, diametrically opposed to most of its surroundings. Denim & leather, fist aloft, another holding a beer: join us!

Line Up:

Jerry Razors Guitars (rhythm), Vocals (2010-present)
Pete Justice Guitars (lead) (2016-present)
Eviltaker Bass (2011-present) - See also: Frozen Semen, ex-Cause of Death
St. Peter Drums, Vocals (backing) (2011-present)

Tracklist:

01. Devastator 03:45
02. Lords of Thunder 03:28
03. Midnight Survivor 03:34
04. Lightning Runners 03:31
05. Break the Chains 04:27
06. Lawmaker 02:53
07. Heavy Metal Night 04:03
08. Sign of the Raven 03:27
09. Witches Never Die 04:23

+ Video "Break the Chains" (Official Video)




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Angel Sword - World Fighter (2024)











Year : 2024
Style : Heavy Metal
Country : Finland
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 79 mb

Bio:

Band formed in 2010 in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.Rough-edged heavy metal to the bone! Angel Sword worships the heavy metal gods of old, fallen into slumber decades ago and now angered by the polished plastic sound of modern metal. Prepare for a skull-crushing, vomit-inducing invocation of NWOBHM, thrash and punk!Our goal in this age of soulless, overproduced modern metal is to re-summon the metal gods of old with a skull-crushing, vomit-inducing dose of rough-edged heavy metal. Third full-length album "World Fighter" will be released by Dying Victims Productions June 14th 2024 !!! NWOTHM from Helsinki, Finland

Album:

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ANGEL SWORD’s highly anticipated third album, World Fighter, on CD and vinyl LP formats.Hailing from Helsinki, Finland’s ANGEL SWORD formed in 2010 with the intent to play old-school heavy metal. And they get right to it with the too-perfectly titled demo Where We Are Going You Cannot Come demo later that year. Two EPs followed – 2013’s Ripping the Heavens and 2015’s The Midwinter Tapes – before their decisive debut album, Rebels Beyond the Pale, in 2016. Another perfectly titled recording, ANGEL SWORD’s first full-length was a fresh breath of old air, finding some elusive (and deceptively laidback yet rough) landscape of late ‘70s heavy metal, subsequent NWOBHM, and adjacent early US power metal. Three years later followed the tighter and slightly more aggressive Neon City, expanding the band’s still-‘80s-bound gaze through a charmingly rustic retro-futurist lens. During all these years, ANGEL SWORD have opened for Manilla Road, Blitzkrieg, and Satan as well as playing such festivals as Metal Assault, Metalheadz Open Air, Storm Crusher warmup, and Up the Hammers warm-up. Oh, and along the way, Darkthrone’s Fenriz thoroughly championed the band!"Our goal in this age of soulless, overproduced modern metal is to re-summon the metal gods of old with a skull-crushing, vomit-inducing dose of rough-edged heavy metal,” state ANGEL SWORD, and that’s exactly what they do with World Fighter! It’d be easy to simply say that their third album is a fairly even balance between the first two albums and…well, it’s kinda the truth! Sporting yet another amazing cover artwork, World Fighter brings the bathos and bravado right from its opening seconds, ANGEL SWORD sounding like true world fighters as they chug forward to their battle hymns. From there, nuance and shade – or, rather, just MOOD – become the watchwords as the quartet keep the thrust mostly mid-tempo, allowing their dark melodicism to fully take flight. And, while ANGEL SWORD never seem like they’re in any hurry, the eight tracks of World Fighter are actually the band’s most uptempo work yet; it’s just that they’re exuding such poise now that that pace feels deceptively relaxed, that big & brassy pulse coasting with coolness and heaviness. Put another way, the album’s almost-uniformly balls-to-the-wall gait summons an effervescent energy – and maximum attitude. Truly, ANGEL SWORD are nothing if not engaging in their rough ‘n’ tumble, raise-the-swords charisma, becoming those very blue-collar ruffians you can really believe in. Coupled with a smoother, somewhat-shimmering style of production that still allows their intrinsic grit to “shine” through, World Fighter goes against all odds to become ANGEL SWORD’s crowning achievement to date. All weekend warriors, enter their Church of Rock post-haste! Album released June 14, 2024.

Line Up:

Jerry Razors - Guitars (rhythm), Vocals (2010-present)
Lightning Mike - Guitars (lead), Vocals (backing) (2016-present)
Eviltaker - Bass (2011-present) - See also: Frozen Semen, ex-Cause of Death
Alexander Depraved - Drums (2020-present)

Tracklist:

01. Vigilantes 03:20
02. Weekend Warrior 04:39
03. Dangerous Games 03:38
04. Church of Rock 03:56
05. Powerglove 02:43
06. Against All Odds 04:10
07. Afterburn 04:13
08. World Fighter 05:43




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