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If you’ve heard one album, you’ve heard them all: mean, aggressive traditional heavy metal. If you want ballads and keyboards, look elsewhere, this is rough heavy metal. Piet Sielck’s singing is probably the roughest in this style. This is the opposite of melodic power metal it’s chunky, aggressive metal. The main problem is that this sounds substantially faceless and generic because thrashy riffing needs hooks, which this band lacks. Semi-thrashy heavy metal with aggression, but not much creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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