New Zealand’s Razorwyre are yet another
group retro of traditional heavy metal musicians, an exuberant quintet who are
not afraid to demonstrate the classic clichés of the genre, often exposing
their fiery fervour for old school metal with vivacious channels, choppy,
percussive rhythms, soulful vocal delivery and speedy speed/thrash tremolo
slashes, proving to be a band that devote themselves to the old school term
entirely. Much like today’s modern power metal acts, the band likes to magnify
the presence of the meat of the guitar with loud, bashing amplifications, and
by penning semi-complex compositions, genuinely short and efficient. The number
of retro heavy metal outfits are growing prodigious, and while scoffing may
seem like a reasonable action to many who’ve suffered the fashioned trends
numerous times, it’s best that you stop complaining about it, and just enjoy
the music, as Razorwyre are thriving the swing of genre even further.
‘’Another Dimension’’ is the debut album
and sole release by the band, but the band’s humbler version, Gaywyre (what a
pleasant moniker) had a nice little power/thrash output named ‘’Coming Out’’.
The band has not been around for a substantial amount of time, but their
efficiency, their punchy grooves and rhythms are far superior to the primal
releases of the band’s contemporaries, and although the material the band
gouges out is not entirely sufficient to curve towards a more innovative
nature, blatant influences such as
Maiden, Priest, Dio, Helloween, interact with other speed/thrash clichés, and
the influences are dispersed sparsely, and you’re left with eleven tracks that
are redolent of something else each. Old school dominates the whole atmosphere, but
it’s clear that the band gets a lot of help from the benefits of technology of
the modern era.
While still being generally aggressive,
Razorwyre gives plenty of room to more soulful, sombre manifestations of
emotion, and they veil it in the deepness of the vocals, and such an overtone
is occasionally spewed forth, showing prominence on track s like ‘’Hangman’s Noose’’.
Of course, the album obviously embraces velocity and hooking riffs over
depressive mourns. A surprisingly wide spectrum of variation awaits you in the
album, some of the most sordid, raw manifestations being jumpy speed/thrash catharsises
like ‘’Knight Of Fire’’ or ‘’Desert Inferno’’, while ‘’Nightblade’’ or Wind
Caller’’ principally espouse a lighter sound, soaring vocals underpinning the
catchy plate of heavy/power hooks, but all in all, all the songs take you
towards the same crater, only dragging you through different paths. Razorwyre’s
material is easily one of the classier speed/thrash/power/heavy gimmicks
around, and albeit it’s all stuff I’ve heard before, I can’t help but
vigorously bob my head to its frivolous and predictable excursions.
Highlights:
Knights Of Fire
Desert Inferno
The Fort
Rating: 85%
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