Primal Fear review 5

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Primal Fear review 5

The Metal commando Portal

First album of Primal Fear, this disc is excellent. Ralf Scheepers, the former vocalist of Ray Gamma, takes again service after a few years of absence, and for what a result! By associating the talent of this fabulous singer with that of Matt Sinner, the group, with this album, fills all the hopes. This album, if it is relatively unperceived past in France, was a great success in Germany, and it is completely deserved. It thus with large heavy metal, is very influenced by Judas Priest, which we deal there. All the ingredients are there: large riffs, rhythmic thick, effective solos (Kai Hansen appears besides in guest on certain pieces) and refrains which kill! The voice of Ralf flies over the whole with a great masterliness. This album abounds in anthems like "Silver and gold", "Promised land" or "Dollars". It is the ideal music to listen in the car, launched on the motorway at high speed (moreover, there is a song, excellent it also, which is entitled "Formula one", it is not for nothing!). The group is also to credit with a good resumption of the "Speedking" of Deep Purple. The album was produced in Morrisound Studio by Matt Sinner, and with thus an enormous, limpid and powerful sound. The only reproach which one could make in Primal Fear (but is really a reproach?) is to have too marked priestiennes influences. But when it is known that Ralf Scheepers had been little before about to replace large Rob Halford, and that it had even made a group-homage to Judas, that does not have anything astonishing. In any case, one can be delighted that it was not retained, bus if not it would undoubtedly not have had the occasion to make this excellent disc. (PIERRE)