Artist: Prey 
   Title: Knight Of The Revolution
   Label: GMR Records

In a year which has produced some outstanding albums from very different genres, you’d think that things would start to slow down but thankfully the great albums just keep on coming, and another album to put on your must hear list is Sweden’s Prey’s latest release ‘Knight Of The Revolution’.

Prey have managed to cross over the Hard Rock sound of the eighties and blend it with the more modern Melodic Metal and the result is quite outstanding.

Opening up with the title track ‘Knights Of The Revolution’, it's instantly noticeable that this band are very listenable, with the vocals of Thomas Nystroem dominating the track.  They have that unique attribute of possessing both both power and grace and with the guitars and keyboards delivering more punch that Mike Tyson, the band are on to a winner.

The album is pure Melodic Metal bliss as it continues with ‘Deliver The Goods’, again the vocals of Nystroem taking the lead on this one. There is an air of old school NWOBHM at moments but with a modern twist that makes this album such an enjoyable listen.  There is a subtle power that just keeps the album in the Melodic vein without being overbearing.

This is felt throughout the album as it goes on with ‘Playing With Fire’ and one of my favourites ‘Bloodred Sky’, a great meaty metal track full of big monstrous bass lines and a thumping drum beat, all wrapped around big licks and a superb vocal that Nystroem delivers with such ease.  Definitely a vocalist to watch out for.

But one track where Nystroem’s vocals really shine is on the gentle mid tempoed ‘Get Out’, a track any band in the Melodic Rock genre would be proud of.   This album is one of a kind for sure as it continues to blow me away with ‘In The Fire’, the excellent ‘In Memoriam’ and the outstanding ‘Addicted’.  All great tracks, especially 'Addicted' with its slight progressive edge.

The band unleash a real slice of old school metal with ‘Run’ before rounding off the album with the all guns blazing ‘Personal Fantasy’.

We’ve just introduced an Editors Choice of albums of the month which if I’d started in May of this year when this album was released it would have been there because it’s an album than crosses that fine line between Melodic Hard Rock and Metal which is a rare commodity indeed.    

Tracklisting:

01. Knights Of The Revolution
02. Deliver The Goods
03. Playing With Fire
04. Bloodred Sky
05. Get Out 06. Into Fire
07. In Memoriam
08. Addicted
09. Run
10. Personal Fantasy  

                  

 

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