Mob Rules - Savage Land (1999)

German band Mob Rules debuted with this concept album, about the world in the future, and its fight over oil and scant water. In Klaus Dirks, the band has an excellent vocalist, and it's all very professionally done, but the material is not terribly memorable; two songs that stick out in my mind are "Rain Song" and "Pray For Sunlight", although the concluding "End Of All Days" is pretty good.
Overall, this is unremarkable, steady metal, with little fury (which is not wrong in itself), that just offers enough to suggest they can go further.

**1/2