GUN BARREL

Heavy Metal • Germany

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Gun Barrel are a German band with their roots firmly placed in traditional heavy metal, based in Cologne and formed in 1998.

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GUN BARREL Discography

GUN BARREL albums / top albums

4.00 | 1 ratings

Power-Dive
Heavy Metal 2001

3.12 | 4 ratings

Battle-Tested
Heavy Metal 2003

GUN BARREL Bombard Your Soul album cover

4.50 | 1 ratings

Bombard Your Soul
Heavy Metal 2005

4.50 | 1 ratings

Outlaw Invasion
Heavy Metal 2008

3.55 | 2 ratings

Brace for Impact
Heavy Metal 2012

0.00 | 0 ratings

Damage Dancer
Heavy Metal 2014

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Live at the Kubana
Heavy Metal 2010

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GUN BARREL Brace for Impact

Album · 2012 · Heavy Metal

Time Signature

The wild hunt...

Genre: traditional metal

Gun Barrel is known for occasionally flirting with power metal aesthetics, but there is not much of that on "Brace for Impact", which by and large contains good old fashioned heavy metal tracks with stints of hard rock. The only thing associable with power metal on this album are a few epic-sounding choruses, like in 'Books of Life' and 'The Wild Hunt'.

Apart from these, the style on "Brace for Impact" is primarily comparable to '78-'84 era Judas Priest - in other words, the listener is treated to solid heavy metal powerful guitar riffage of the old school metal type with the bass pumping away. As I said, there are a few detours into hard rock (there are even some old-man-trucking moments every now and then), but these fit really well enough into the overall picture.

If you like extreme metal or modern metal, then "Brace for Impact" perhaps not the most overwhelming and mind-blowing album, but fans of 80s-metal should be able to appreciate Gun Barrel's ability to capture a lot of the classic elements from the metal of the early 80s.

In any case, this is a solid retro old school heavy metal release that should appeal to fans of 80s metal before it all went glam.

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GUN BARREL Battle-Tested

Album · 2003 · Heavy Metal

Time Signature

Rebel tunes...

Genre: traditional heavy metal with power metal tendencies

"Battle-Tested" by Gun Barrel is a mostly solid heavy metal release which, while drawing primarily on the 1980s material of the likes of Judas Priest, Accept, and White Lion (don't know why White Lion came to mind, actually) as inspiration, contains several power metal influences.

There is nothing outstanding about this album, and everything is pretty standard. The riffage is standard 1980s metal riffage, and the lyrics are pretty standard 1980s metal lyrics about freedom, beer, rock 'n' roll, the glory of metal etc. That's not necessarily a bad thing, because, sometimes, that's what you want, isn't it. Good old heavy metal. And that's what "Battle-Tested" offers.

Apart from the somwhat failed anthemic "My Last Ale", the tracks on this album - especially "We Believe in Nothing", "Roll of the Dice", "Lonely Rider", "Part in the Hall of Fame", "Scream of the Killer", "Save My Heart from You", "Death Knell Dance", and the title track - lend themselves perfectly for a day of highway driving.

I'd recommend this album to anyone who's in the mood for some good old headbanging heavy metal fun.