SAD IRON - Total Damnation

May 20, 2015, 8 years ago

(Skol)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 5.5

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SAD IRON - Total Damnation

The label says Sad Iron are a "classic" Dutch metal act, and while I'd dispute the "classic" part, they are from decades past, as is this debut album, originally issued in 1983. And the band races out of the first cut all guns blazing, the classic trad/NWOBHM sounding fun and fast and furious on "Demon's Night." The vocals, as is often the case, are a bit of a stumbling point, here way too loud in the mix and not that convincing to begin with.

Clocking in at 63 minutes thanks to the five bonus tracks, this is way too much of only a middling thing, but taken in short doses, I do get a big bang out of the band's youthful energy and excitement, tunes like the outrageously long in the tooth (and just long) "We All Praise The Devil" exhausting at 9:10, but also energizing when the double-time part kicks in around the five-minute mark. Look, no one's being fooled into thinking this is some kind of lost desert island disc and I'm not entirely sold on listening to more than ten minutes of this band ever again, but it's fun to throw on for a song or two, let's give them that much.



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