Review - Battle Beasy by Battle Beast

[Muxxer]

Hi, i just want to left this review I have made for Battle Beast's self titled album. I love this album, and I want to share my opinion.

First, I think this is the best album by Battle Beast.

What makes this album a very good experience of excellent heavy metal is, among the 13 songs on this album, the great lyrics, great guitar solos, and great riffs. The album opens with the song "Let it Roar", which offers an excellent introduction, and a taste of what's coming.

The first thing I'll look at is the excellent voice of Noora Louhimo. What Noora gives us in this album is an energetic voice -especially in the choruses- and a beautiful soft voice in the slower parts. The rhythm guitar is based on strong riffs, mixing those old school riffs heavily influenced by NWOBHM bands with power metal riffs and some influences of modern metal, and they sound really good. The guitarist, Juuso Soinio, gives us virtuous and fast guitar solos, which are a delicacy for the ears. He is a great shredder and loves sweep picking. The drums are one of the many examples of how a heavy metal drummer should play: quickly, accurately and with great power. The fills are completely excellent and unlike other bands, the bass is not muted by the other instruments. To the contrary, you can feel the bass, and in some songs the bassist plays excellently, and sometimes even becomes the protagonist (such as during the verses of "Black Ninja").

Several songs have an epic introduction and that gives the energy to the songs from the beginning, and some other songs have a slow first part but then they unleash a hellish power that lasts until the end of the song. Another thing I like about this album is that the band incorporates some industrial and electronic elements (can be seen in songs like "Neuromancer" and "Machine Revolution"), which gives the band a touch more originality, and can attract those who are not accustomed to hearing bands like this.

The atmosphere of the songs is a combination between harmony and epic choruses, guitar riffs, and guitar solos, with a noticeable touch of futurism. Speaking about the structure of the songs, it is the common structure of most heavy metal songs: introduction, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus. The guitar solos are a little long, but I love that. The lyrics usually speak about fantasy, war and robots. It could be said that focuses on a war between humans and robots (or something like that). There is also something I love which is how "Golden Age" connects with "Kingdom". "Golden Age" is a very melodic and relaxing instrumental song, and "Kingdom" is a very fast and epic song. It is kinda hard to explain this, you must listen to the album to see what I mean.

A thing that I do not like about this album is that the guitar riffs are very similar between the songs, and some songs are somewhat crude, with little worked in harmonies replacing the melody for faster and heavier riffs approaching a little to thrash metal (such as the song "Raven"). In brief, what I like about this album is that it contains great potential, and, in my opinion, that is an achievement for the band. It has several songs that demonstrate the power of this band and that shows that heavy metal is a very enjoyable musical genre (especially the Finnish and Scandinavian heavy metal).

Battle Beast (in my opinion) is one of the best Finnish heavy metal bands and one of the best on the whole planet, and if you like this genre, you must hear this album before you die.

Rating: 8.9/10

I wrote it for Metal-Archives, but I just wanted to post it here.

Have a great week and bang your heads untill you die.

[UncleShredder]

Their first was better.