Year : 2019 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 187 mb
Bio:
Savage Messiah was formed in London in 2007 out of a desire and dedication to creating 100% Heavy Metal music.The band consists of Dave Silver on lead guitar and vocals, Joff Bailey on lead guitar, Stefano Selvatico on bass and Andrea Gorio on drums.In the 6 years since forming, the band has achieved respectable successes, having had two worldwide official releases and one independent ep, in that time working with Grammy nominated producer Chris Tsangarides (Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson) and more recently Scott Atkins (Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Amon Amarth). The band has also picked up notable touring credentials having supported Overkill on a full European tour in 2010, supporting Evile in the UK and picking up shows with Death Angel, Queensryche, Skeletonwitch, Sylosis, Onslaught etc…and has appeared at UK festivals including Bloodstock Open Air, Hammerfest, Devilstone Open Air, Hellfire Festival and played headlining shows in the UK and Europe.The first recorded output from Savage Messiah was the independently produced and financed ep “Spitting Venom” in 2007, distributed via Plastic Head. The e.p achieved moderate acclaim with Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic.com stating “[Savage Messiah] is arguably more imaginative and dynamically versatile than that of many, more experienced, and better funded thrashing contemporaries. More original, too“summarizing “it shouldn’t be long before Savage Messiah are signed to a more supportive label infrastructure“Ultimately “Spitting Venom” scored the band a recording contract with independent metal specialists Candlelight Records (Emperor, Opeth) who released the bands first full length album “Insurrection Rising” in 2009. Produced by Chris Tsangarides and mixed and engineered by Scott Atkins, “Insurrection Rising” is a massive leap in terms of production and song writing and earned the band high praise from all corners of the metal world.After touring had ceased in support of “Insurrection…” the band opted to move to Earache Records for the release of the 2012 album “Plague of Conscience”. Once again working with Scott Atkins, “Plague of Conscience” is a more polished affair with once again noticeable improvements being made in the song writing and performance departments. Metal Hammer in the UK awarded the album 8/10 and Burrrn Magazine in Japan gave the band an unprecedented 95/100 score. The band and label initially opted to give the album away as a free download, achieving over 42,000 downloads in the first week!In September 2012 the band shot a debut promo for the track “All Seeing I”. In promoting the video, the band appeared on the front page of Vevo in the USA and to date has attracted well over 130,000 hits since release.2014 holds the release of the new album 'The Fateful Dark' through Earache Records on the 10th March.
Album:
Although they were only formed in 2007, it feels like London’s Savage Messiah have been around for a lot longer than just over a decade. Regular album releases and frequent appearances on the touring circuit give the impression the band are old hands when they’re actually still relative newcomers. And with only eighteen months or so having passed since their last studio outing, the band are already preparing to unleash their fifth album, Demons (Century Media) into your lovely listening orifices.Straight out of the starting blocks comes opener ‘Virtue Signal’ which finds the band in no mood for pissing about, going hell for leather, armed with big riffs and bigger vocals. The blood and thunder assault doesn’t last long, however, with the more subdued ‘What Dreams May Come’ entering melodic Power Metal territory.‘Heretic in the Modern World’ packs a serious punch and features some superb guitar work, but the cover of country singer Chris Stapleton‘s ‘Parachute’ sticks out like a sore thumb, sounding like the band have listened to too many Jon Bon Jovi cowboy songs. ‘Under No Illusions’ steps in straight away to apologise, grabbing you around the throat with blistering riffery and a strong, if rather predictable, power metal chorus.Trivium meets Megadeth and Metallica for the quite superb ‘Down and Out’, while ‘The Lights Are Going Out’ is languidly paced but armed with another strong chorus. ‘The Bitter Truth’ seems desperate to be an all-out Anthrax style thrash attack but just falls short. ‘Until the Shadows Fall’ is standard power metal fare, ‘Rise Then Fall’ is all sound and fury but doesn’t stay with you any longer than its running time, and while closing cut ‘Steal the Faith in Me’ isn’t a bad track by any length, the Gojira style final riff isn’t quite as powerful as it could be.Straddling the lines between traditional, thrash, and power metal, Demons is aggressive and fast one moment, but then melodic and restrained the next as fiery, energetic riffs are countered with smooth canorous choruses. The drums can occasionally sound a little hidden during the record’s louder, thrashier moments, and the sequencing doesn’t help create much momentum, but from the performance of frontman Dave Silver to the impeccable playing of the rest of the band, Demons is varied, interesting, and still full of that youthful enthusiasm they seem too old to possess.
Line-Up:
Dave Silver - Vocals, Guitars (2007-present) - See also: ex-Headless Cross, The Purge
Charly Carretón - Drums
David Hruska - Vocals (backing), Guitars
Mira Slama - Bass (2014-present) - See also: ex-Monument
Tracklist:
01. Virtue Signal
02. What Dreams May Come
03. Heretic In The Modern World
04. Parachute
05. Under No Illusion
06. Down And Out
07. The Lights Are Going Out
08. The Bitter Truth
09. Until The Shadows Fall
10. Rise Then Fall
11. Steal The Faith in Me
12. Stray Bullets (Japan Bonus Track)
+ Video "Down And Out" (Official Video)
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