EDGUY — Hellfire Club (review)

EDGUY — Hellfire Club album cover Album · 2004 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Stephen
"Hellfire Club" is the sixth release of the German power metal band, marketed in the early 2004, and revealed the band's interest in experimenting a change to their musical form. This album showed the riffs heaviness usually found in the old school heavy metal,reduced the classic speed tempo in majority of their songs, and introduced the implementation of orchestra. Although the album has received a mixed reviews, "Hellfire Club" was the highest charting release in their home country until today.

The band welcomed you to the freakshow through a speeding "Mysteria" and continued by a 10-minutes epic similar to what you usually encountered in many Iron Maiden albums. Along came my next favourite track,"We Don't Need A Hero", this is the true power metal the old fans will adore together with "Rise of the morning glory" that reminded us of the glorious days of high-pitch Helloween.

There are some hard rock moments such as "King of Fools" and the hillarious "Lavatory Love Machine" that also pioneered their change toward this style in their next releases. One thing that I always love about this band is how furious they play their music, they're still capable in making stunning and beautiful ballads and "Forever" is the proof of their capacity.

"Hellfire Club" actually doesn't sound as hellish as what many non-power metal fans thought at first, in fact, this is a commercial-yet-raw heavy metal show that offered many great melodic hooks and huge riffs salvo. Awesome album!
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