{"id":101309,"date":"2023-08-18T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101309"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:18:33","slug":"album-review-cruel-force-dawn-of-the-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-cruel-force-dawn-of-the-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"CRUEL FORCE – Dawn Of The Axe (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRUEL FORCE
Dawn Of The Axe<\/strong><\/span>
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\nShadow Kingdom (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Emerging from swirling mists, German cult Cruel Force releases its third full-length album. If you\u2019ve been fortunate enough to see the music video for the song \u2018At The Dawn Of The Axe\u2019 then you\u2019ll no doubt appreciate the Brocas Helm-cum-Venom vibe these archaic rockers give off. Early-to-mid 80s black leather speed metal is the rage here as the crusty combo straddles columns of pink fog which are swiped away by their studded wristbands.<\/p>\n

If they weren\u2019t accomplished musicians you might mistake the whole drama for Sp\u0131n\u0308al Tap or Bad News, but as it is album number three from Cruel Force this is a fire-breathing belter. The aforementioned \u2018At The Dawn Of The Axe\u2019 rattles like a leftover from the brilliant Speed Kills<\/em> compilations as it coughs up dry fumes of Slayer<\/a>, Bulldozer, Overkill, Razor and Destruction<\/a>. \u2018Night Of Thunder\u2019 rips with similar enthusiasm due to the breakneck pounding of caveman GG Alex.<\/p>\n

The vocals of Carnivore are pure throwback chops which take songs like \u2018Devil\u2019s Dungeon\u2019, \u2018Across The Styx\u2019 and \u2018Power Surge\u2019 into the darkest depths where the rest of the band rages like an unholy mix of Hallows Eve, Exciter and the more obvious Venom.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing remotely clever about Cruel Force, they just love to live up to their moniker by delivering smoking hot metal music dripping with catchy riffs and stinking of well worn leather, and let\u2019s not even talk about the sideburns and moustaches!<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CRUEL FORCEDawn Of The Axe Shadow Kingdom (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Emerging from swirling mists, German cult Cruel Force releases its third full-length album. If you\u2019ve been fortunate enough to see the music video for the song \u2018At The Dawn Of The Axe\u2019 then you\u2019ll no doubt appreciate the Brocas Helm-cum-Venom vibe these archaic rockers give off. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5474],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-cruel-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101310,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101309\/revisions\/101310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}