Friday, 24 August 2012

Sacred Steel - Bloodlust (2000)

Sacred Steel's third album certainly lives up to its title. Full of violence and decapitations and destruction and evil torture from some kind of Emperor and Tyrant King, these Germans go all-out in their apocalytpic glee - song titles like "The Oath Of Blood", "Blood On My Steel", "Sacred Warriors Of Steel", "Dark Forces Lead Me To The Brimstone Gate" and "Lust For Blood" speak for themselves.
But it must be said that the music is super powerful, and even singer Gerrit Mutz's vocals sound more normal than, well, normal, although he still sometimes gives the impression of Dracula with his pants too tight.
Ideally, this is not my favourite kind of power metal. When evil forces attack, I like to hear about good forces defeating them, or at least taking them on. Wimpy, I know. It's a reason while I'll never really make it into any 'true' heavy metal club (which, quite frankly, is absolutely fine by me). And, of course, I like more melody. But there's still something about the force of this music that does it for me, and so I have to give it a bit of begrudging admiration.

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