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Review:
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If I told you the band is The Wildcat Nathalie on vocals,
The Metal Heart Frenzy on guitar, The Grave Digger Rikki
on bass, and The Killing Machine Vince on drums then you
might get the impression that this isn’t going to be an
album by a bunch of alt rock shoe gazers. Goodness knows
what the priest thought when he christened them, ‘I name
thee Grave Digger’, and it must have been fun at school,
‘yes Mr. Vince, as headmaster I must tell you that your
son Killing Machine must try harder’. Mystery Blue have
been one of France’s top metal bands since the early 90’s,
sharing the same stage as such luminaries as Girlschool,
Motorhead, Saxon, Wolf, et al, and if you want METAL!!!!
then this band have got it in spades, indeed, the ace of
spades, the ace of spades, sorry, a sudden attack of the
Motorheads. Ten no holds barred, no frills, band your head
till you drop, classic metal anthems, with an injection
of power metal. Nathalie sounds like Bruce Dickinson’s supersonic
sister as she tears through these tracks like a Boeing 757.
Highlights include ‘Hell and Fury’, ‘Metal Attack’, and
the two more melodic numbers, ‘Piece of Eternity’, with
it’s brief oasis of calm at the start, and the final epic,
‘When Time is Pain’. This is one for you classic heavy metal
Maiden, Priest and Manowar fans, mosh your way to their
Myspace, http://www.myspace.com/mysterybluefr
, it’s available from a range of stores. Hell hath no
fury like a woman scorned, you have been warned,
8 out of 10.
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