PRIMAL FEAR — Unbreakable (review)

PRIMAL FEAR — Unbreakable album cover Album · 2012 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Stephen
'Unbreakable' might be a cliche power metal album, something that you've predicted and expected right from the start when you tore off the CD's seal and put it in the player, but PRIMAL FEAR delivered something that they're very good at and what makes this album stood out is the brilliant composition of the songs packed with an extremely tight rhythm section

After the intro, 'Strike' thrusted deep with a blistering tempo and incinerating harmonic solos. A perfect song in my book, and two other tracks that's as strong as this one is 'And There Was Silence' which reminds me a lot to classic HELLOWEEN and also 'Unbreakable Part 2', a 6-minutes power metal epic that's also the best part of the second half.

PRIMAL FEAR isn't only about power and speed, because I think of them as a cross between JUDAS PRIEST and old HELLOWEEN, so there are still plenty of awesome heavy metal tracks such as 'Give Em Hell' with a fantastic riffs; the first single, 'Bad Guys Wear Black' which ironically is only the fifth best track here; and 'Blaze of Glory'. Ralf Scheepers vocal is still a monster, and check out his take on the last tune, 'Conviction', a brutally beautiful slab of power metal.

It's probably the same old style, and sometimes the term 'consistency' always overlapped with 'monotonous', depends on how you look it. If you're looking for something fresh and new, you might not gonna find it here, but if you need something classic done right, this is a solid pick!
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