Sacred Steel - Hammer Of Destruction (2006)

Sacred Steel never have been the typical power metal band, and here they are mostly steeped in straight speed metal, and it's all very heavy and fast, with Gerrit Mutz's usual strangled vocal yelps combining with the gang chants, as they hail metal a lot, and also go for extra dark territory with, in particular, the nine minute "Black Church", which is slower, and is probably more satanic than you're likely to find anywhere else done by a band under the banner of power metal.
I like their heaviness, but Sacred Steel will never really be my cup of tea. I think I've come to that safe conclusion by now.

**1/2