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Artist: Orden Ogan |
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From
the onset these German Melodic Metallers Orden Ogan take no prisoners with
their epic metal tales on their new album 'Easton Hope'. The album is all
you would expect from a Melodic Metal band and more, rampaging guitar
licks, a thunderous rhythm section and a massive (I mean MASSIVE) vocal
presence. From
the opening epic styled intro which leads into the proper album opener
‘Rise and Ruin’, you know that this is going to be, without a doubt,
a thunderous success in a genre that has many false prophets
declaring they are the new messiah in Metal. But stand aside all those
who have gone before because a new band is in town and their here for
the crown. The
album takes up the story of Alister Vale before the bands ‘Vale’
album and takes you on a metal roller-coaster ride that you will never
want to end. This has to be one of the finest slice of Metal to come out
of Germany in a long time. The
album get us off to a quite stunning start with ‘Rise To Ruin’.
The
track is showered with some quite sublime guitar work and a double kick
bonanza, which is capped by the fantastic vocal of Seeb. The
blazing metal continues with the fantastic barrage of metal that is the
‘Nobody Leaves’, one for all the riff lovers this one, as Tobi and Seeb
both push the six string to its limits on this one, but again it’s the
vocals of Seeb that really shine. The
album continues it’s massive and I mean MASSIVE assault on the senses
with the anthemic ‘Goodbye’, before one of my favourites songs off
the album the excellent title track ‘Easton Hope’. A real
master-class in pushing the Power Metal envelope further with melody and give a whole
new dimension to the European metal sound. ‘Welcome
Liberty’ is pure metal gold and angry vocal leads this one, while the
powerhouse drumming of Ghnu and the driven bass of Lars make this a
metal-heads delight. The
traditional metal fans will love the duo guitar licks and the double
kick delights of
‘All These Dark Years’, then it's time to really get the heart
pumping with the epic tones of the guitar rich ’Nothing Remains’.
A
track that is completed with an excellent choral chorus which gives this
one an almost Symphonic Metal feel. The
band reach almost film score production with the haunting ‘Requiem’,
again complete with orchestrations, then we get a little pirate metal
with what else but ‘We Are Pirates’. A triumph of metal and folk that
you have to listen to to really enjoy. Track of the album for me has to be ‘The Black Heart’, again
it's all
out riff-spewn metal from the off. A real bad-ass track that just
thunders on through with military precision taking no prisoners on its
way. The
album comes to a close with the very impressive ‘Of Downfall And
Decline’. Very much a powerhouse track with big bass lines and huge drums,
matched by licks in spades, a real epic track to round off what will set
the band up as one of the real triumphs of 2010. With the band set to
play Wacken later this year, I'm confident the masses will sure take to this band and
will make them a household name before the years out. |
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Tracklisting: 1. Rises And Ruin |
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