Armour

The Finnish band Armour introduces his self titled debut album with style and shows that the classic heavy metal of the 80’s isn’t dead yet. With fury riffs, raw vocals and mind blowing solos the band puts down a very good album for sure. The power that each song contains is the same and will even let the most stiff headed metalhead move.

The soul in each song can be taste through the right combination of music, vocals and of course solos. How many bands can you name that overdo their solos? I bet quite a bit, but Armour knows where the clear boundaries are and don’t put the attention to one aspect, but really divide the attention over all subjects, which will make the band, really a band and not one person supported by.

The songs of Armour also contain a lot of hard rock elements which will allow people to sing along with the band, which of course makes the album even more interesting. Listen to Roll Out (Or Get Rocked) and you will exactly know what I mean. And then when you think it can’t go any faster they blast in Satan’s Knights. Forget about the fast pagan metal, it is this song that will blast your mind. Magick Armour is also a wakeup call after the more rock sounding They Can’t Resist Your Spell. Magick Armour is pretty heavy again and fast and the whole unit, melody, vocals and base lines support each other very well, flowing in each other as streams of water.

Hellfire is not a song which is in balance as the rest. Hellfire supports more on the solo which is a real solid solo for sure, where after they sing the chorus again, but it doesn’t seem so strong. The same thing happens to the solo of Ready To Attack. With the finishing song Heavy Metal Drinkers, the band will have made a great anthem and will surely be one of the songs that will make every set list, no matter what the other songs may be.

Armour made a good album, full of power, melodic attacks and of course with ferocious vocals. After listening to the album I can only fantasize how the band would be live, because it promises a very good show. Heavy metal wasn’t dead; it just had a little rest to knock the door down again with a little help of Armour.

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