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Iron
Savior – Condition Red
Review by antiGUY
Iron
Savior – Condition Red
Label: Noise
Records
Rating:
Tracks: Titans of Our Time
Protector
Ironbound
Condition Red
Warrior
Mindfeeder
Walls of Fire
Tales Of the Bold
I Will Be There
No Heroes
Paradies
Thuderbird
Crazy
If you are a fan of Helloween and Gamma
Ray’s brand of power-metal than it’s a good bet that you are already a
fan of Iron Savior. With “Condition Red” return with all the power and
intensity of their previous albums, if not a more polished sound. Especially
with a song like the album opener “Titans of Our Time”, which sounds like
Helloween jamming with Queen and early Judas Priest, you can see why these
guys are a favorite in the underground power-metal world. Let’s face
it, this stuff may not be the most popular form of metal but it does kick
some major ass!
While it sometimes comes across as a little
overdone like the verses on “Ironbound” which sounds like something that
might have played by “Thundersteel” era Riot, if you’re into ultra-clean
production that doesn’t sacrifice power than you can’t do better that Iron
Savior. Those who wanted the heavier and rawer vocal treatment should stick
to bands like Opeth as most of those into dirtier brands of metal might
not be able to get into this but that’s ok, those who understand that you
can make a high quality produced metal album without going pop know what
they like and for those individuals Iron Savior delivers once more.
