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Artist: Disaster Peace |
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After some ten years in the metal wilderness of production, the guitarist of legends King Diamond one Pete Blakk is back and back with a bang. After ten years absence Blakk has been persuaded out of retirement from the music scene to put together the band after appearing with Wade Black’s local band in Tampa Florida. The show went so well that Blakk decided to put Disaster Peace together. Along with Black we have fellow King Diamond member Hal Patino and completing the line-up, Jasin Marxx on drums. The resulting album is a metal monster with the fantastic riff building of Blakk and the phenominal vocals of Black. The pair have really put together a metal band to out-gun all those young pretenders out there. The album is fast and furious Heavy Metal from the off. This is old school big guitars and a monster vocalist all wrapped in a thunder-cracking rhythm section. The album opens up with the intro ‘ Disaster Peace’, before the full force of the band is unleashed with ‘Scarecrow’. A song that is as full on a metal track as you can get, with Black showing off his metal credentials from the off. There's also some splendid guitar licks from Blakk against the pneumatic drumming of Marxx, giving it that thunderous metal feel. It's "METALLL!!!" all the way with ‘S&M’, another bang, crash, wallop of a track, with Black again shining through. Then it's into Purgatorio’ which is a real guitar players feast of metal riffs and monstrous licks, as Blakk lets this short instrumental lead the way for the mighty ‘Judas Witch’, with Black sounding more like Udo in places as he screams and chants his way through this one. This album pulls no punches until the rather sedate dark anti love song ‘Don’t Come Back’, a more melodic track, before returning to the full blown metal with a monstrous cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘The Immigrant Song’. A track that the old school rockers will disbelieve but the young rockers will just love because the probably haven’t heard the original version, a great heads down version. The blazing metal just keeps on coming with the riff filled ‘ Blood To Blood’, the pounding almost thrash like ‘The Gaoler’ and the guitar laden splendour of ‘My Guns’. However, if you like your guitars at the forefront of a song then you can’t beat 'Inferno’, this is where Black is let loose to do what he does best and spews out furious lick after lick on this one. The
album closes with ‘Kill Em & Love Em’, another all out metal
spectacular that only has one line of lyrics “kill em & love em”,
with the rest of the band pummeling away like an express train without
brakes. Which all goes to round off a real heavy, metal album,
that will see once again the name of Pete Blakk on the lips of
metalheads worldwide. |
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Tracklisting: 1. Disaster Peace
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