Revelation
Armored Saint
- Style
- Heavy Metal
- Label
- MetalBlade Records
- Year
- 2000
- Reviewed by
- Danny
/ 100
Killing songs: Pay Dirt, The Pillar, Tension, Creepy Feelings
They are reunion and reunion. Armored Saint is back, but its music
is also back. Back at the top actually. Not that the last Armored
Saint was bad (Symbol Of Salvation), but with all those reunion, it
seems that the music is not always present, or let's say that some
reunion seems to call money and not necessary good music. After the
first minute of first song Pay Dirt, you can feel this Revelation
will blow up our brains and our speakers. It's heavy, full of "dirty"
guitar riffs and the voice of John Bush (Anthrax) is so aggressive,
better than ever (The Pillar) and fits perfectly well to this
classical heavy metal music. You will also feel that those musicians
are hungry & angry. Hungry of very good songs and angry because
some
riffs have this powerful "touch" and this typical US metal rage.
It will sound nostalgic for some of you (after all it's typical heavy
metal from the 80's combined with the sound of the 90's), but this
is the kind of heavy metal I like. It puts those news bands far, far,
very far behind. The master is back. Sorry guys, but the teacher is
still better than its students. Armored Saint's music is simply inimitable
and very mature. Buy it.