Year : 2016
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal , Melodic Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 156 mb
Bio:
MYSTIC PROPHECY became one of the biggest surprises within the global metal scene for the last years, standing for powerful and dynamic metal, hardly found in our days. Searching a name that captures and describes their sound, vocalist R.D. Liapakis came up with the name MYSTIC PROPHECY, which stands for the intensity of their unique sound. Although each member of the band is playing in other acts, MYSTIC PROPHECY always was supposed to be a real band, which plays live. With their debut album Vengeance, MYSTIC PROPHECY seemed to fill in a gap within the scene, receiving great reviews all over the globe. Especially vocalist R.D. Liapakis makes them being something special. Regressus was the second album of the band, which proves that they can even top the high quality of their debut "Vengeance". “Regressus” is even more aggressive and powerful, featuring twelve neckbreaking tracks every metal fan has to discover. "NeverEnding" is the 3rd studio album by German power metal group Mystic Prophecy, released in October 2004. This is the last album of a trilogy and also the last to feature Gus G and Dennis Ekdahl. With "Savage Souls" they released a traditional Metal album, long since awaited by the scene, which delights fans and muzzles the band's critics. An expanded headliner tour with label colleagues Majesty follows and becomes a great success. With their next album "Satanic Curses" the band musically steps out of the Power Metal circle in order to create the world's "heaviest Heavy Metal album". Nearly Death Metal-like Up-Speed tracks paired with superior melodic vocals are the trademark of Satanic Curses. Their 2009 album “Fireangel” marked a serious turning point for Mystic Prophecy – after many thought the band would not continue because of diverse line-up changes and delivered a serious metal highlight. With “Fireangel” the band went on a longer European tour with the Finns of Stratovarius The feedback was more than positive and it soon became clear that the band wasn’t able to keep the 1-year rhythm in releasing new albums – it took double time, almost two years this time to finish “Ravenlord”. After the band was abtle to gain a lot of attention with their song “Ravenlord” being placed on the CD compilations of various magazines such as Rock Hard, Metal Hammer or Rock It!, the band topped all expectations on their co-headlining position on the “Wolfsnächte” tour with Powerwolf. Quite often the fans had to face the “SOLD OUT!” sign at the venues of the tour. The tour gave an massive impact on the band and the guys gained many new fans on that tour, especially as it was followed bysome outstanding festival shows (e.g., Metalfest, Summer Breeze, NOAF, Prog Power). After the tour is usually before the new album, so after their last open air show in 2012 MYSTIC PROPHECY made their way into the rehearsal room to start working on KillHammer. "Killhammer" is a challenge for your neck. Straight power metal songs meet a strong production. To promote the album, Mystic Prophecy joined Masterplan on their Novum Initium Tour in Oktober 2013. After several Gigs in the beginning of 2014, Mystic Prophecy announced their Headling Tour in Oktober 2014, which concluded 10 Dates around Europe. In 2015 they played a couple of shows in Germany to be more focussed on writing and recording songs for their upcoming Album which will be released on the 18th March 2016. To promote their 9th full length they will be on tour around europe in March 2016 with Orden Ogan. The upcoming record WAR BRIGADE will be available in many special editions such as a limited Edition Fanbox. Besides that there will be Internet promotion including banners, interviews and reviews and PR Videos. and also appeared on numerous festivals
Album:
There are a few bands out there that release the same albums over and over again, and this is actually fine if the band already has a consolidated career or if the music is downright awesome, but it often turns the final product into somewhat of a nuisance. Unfortunately, Mystic Prophecy falls down in the latter category. Relying on the same thrashy power metal with ripped vocals, heavy riffs and passable songwriting, these Germans go at it again with the release of their 9th album, ‘War Brigade’, celebrating their sweet 16th birthday. Unsurprisingly, this new effort features basically the same melodies seen in albums such as ‘Savage Souls’, ‘Ravenlord’ and ‘Killhammer’; overly-melodic passages mixed with heavier (even aggressive) moments.The album begins with “Follow the Blind” (not nearly as good as the song you’re thinking of), a mid-tempo tune with a cathy chorus and a less raw vocal presentation by frontman Roberto Dimitri Liapakis. “Metal Brigade” lifts the spirits a bit, with its (already dated) lyric paying homage to the heavy metal greats and a cool guitar intro, with decent riffing throughout the course of the song. From that point on, the album dives into a sea of uninspired execution and predictable songwriting. True, there are quality moments such as “Good Day to Die”, “Fight For One Nation” and “War of Lies”, three songs that are mainly power metal with a little bit of angriness on their choruses and a heavier drapery on top, making for fun, if not good, passages, but these are exceptions to the rule. “Burning Out”, “The Crucifix” and the title-track all show great promise, only to be lowered as bland and overly-commercial. I can’t help but to think this is Liapakis’ fault, because the riffs are pounding, the rhythm section is rumbling and the drumming is aggressive. The vocals, though, range from very decent, respectably l to downright ludicrous lines that should belong far from the power/thrash metal department – and as far away from the scene as possible, for that matter – , maybe with Avenged Sevenfold or some other band that doesn’t have anything to do with the heavy metal genre. After the third or fourth song, this becomes really annoying and actually offensive to a headbanger’s ear. To close the album, the band made a cover song for Tom Jones’ “Sex Bomb”, which doesn’t help at all with their cause and feels somewhat preposterous, if not entirely comical.If you have been following Mystic Prophecy since its inception, you will find some sort of safe harbor with ‘War Brigade’, as it features all the elements that we’ve seen in past efforts. If you’re only waiting for an alternative on the typical power metal album but don’t have any kind of emotional attachment to these Germans, though, I would suggest you wait for Paragon’s upcoming album, ‘Hell Beyond Hell’. All in all, it’s a decent but predictable output with a few standout tracks, and, of course, the album has its moments and I won’t take that away from them, but at the end of the day it’s an effort that will quickly be forgotten, especially in a year stacked with promises and long-awaited albums.
Line Up:
Joey Roxx - Bass (Souldrinker (live))
Roberto Dimitri Liapakis - Vocals (Valley's Eve, Devil's Train)
Markus Pohl - Guitars (rhythm) (Souldrinker, Watch Me Bleed, ex-Justice Inc., ex-Symphorce)
Tristan Maiwurm - Drums (ex-Process Paths, ex-Final Depravity)
Laki Ragazas - Guitars (lead) (Oliver Weers, ex-Deceptor, Devil's Train)
Tracklist:
01. Follow The Blind
02. Metal Brigade
03. Burning Out
04. The Crucifix
05. Pray To Hell
06. 10.000 Miles Away
07. Good Day To Die
08. The Devil Is Back
09. War Panzer
10. Fight For One Nation
11. War Of Lies
12. Sex Bomb (Tom Jones cover) (Bonus Track)
+ Video "Metal Brigade" (Official Video)
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