Majesty - Reign In Glory (2003)

Majesty's third album is longer (around an hour) than their last one, which was longer than the one before, as they go for more expansive, lengthy songs.
Unfortunately, this doesn't make for particlarly better music.
The first three tracks, "Heavy Metal Battlecry", "Into The Stadiums" and "Reign In Glory", proclaim heavy metal.  All of them. Even by the standards of such bands who love to wave the metal flag, this is overkill. Of course, the amusement factor is pretty high - the title song stating, "To all you fuckers making fun of this band, Don't you ever mess with our fans/Hey poser, we know what you do, so beware, we are huntin' for you".  Lyrics like that are going to encourage those fuckers to make fun of them less?
After these three, we get into all the battles of good versus evil - like on the album before, there's a song ("Lord Of The Damned") which is based on the 'forthcoming' (at the time) novel by vocalist Tarek Maghary, which is full of doom and proclaiming 666.  Don't metal bands ever get tired of that number?
It's all very passionate, all very genuine, and "Heavy Metal Battlecry" is a rip roaring piece. But, overall, the material here just isn't very inspiring. It gets point for effort, but not for execution.

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