{"id":101512,"date":"2023-09-08T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101512"},"modified":"2023-09-12T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:26:29","slug":"album-review-street-fighter-secondhand-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-street-fighter-secondhand-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"STREET FIGHTER – Secondhand Hero (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

STREET FIGHTER
Secondhand Hero<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFrom The Vaults (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Danish heavy metal project Street Fighter has seemingly emerged from nowhere with a sizzler of a record. Don\u2019t be put off by the bad cover art (even though it\u2019s a straight up homage to the 80s), this is a superb debut outing which stirs the 80s metal cauldron with eight tracks that sound fresh rather than derivative. Sure, this is throwback metal, but it is energetic and crackles with an almost heroic sentiment echoed by the stormy wails and commands of the vocals.<\/p>\n

Street Fighter is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Marco Angioni (Meridian), and is joined on this project by vocalists Stefan Jensen (Exelerate) and Sofia Schmidt (Ethereal Kingdoms), bassist Anders Peter Bruun (Meridian) and drummer Klaus Agerbo (Meridian). The album also features a whole host of guest musicians; opening song, \u2018The Fall Of The Ash\u2019, is led by the voices of Michael Catton (Tainted Lady) and Christopher Catton (Boys From Heaven), Diamond Head frontman Rasmus Bom Andersen guests on \u2018Queen Of The Night\u2019, while the closing track, \u2018Nordic Noise\u2019, features Michael Bastholm Dahl (Artillery) and Lars M\u00e4rker (Meridian) on vocal duties.<\/p>\n

With so many different singers there is no solid vocal identity to Street Fighter, but that doesn\u2019t stop this album from being a melodic powerhouse. The slow burning fires of \u2018Black Potion\u2019, the bass clanking fluidity of \u2018Deadend City\u2019, and the synth led and simmering \u2018Devil In Disguise\u2019\u2026 it\u2019s all here.<\/p>\n

If you want metal you\u2019ve got it; bold, suave, enigmatic, evocative and nostalgic. Get these guys supporting a band like Michigan\u2019s Wanted and you\u2019re on to a winner. \u2018Sister Moon\u2019 writhes with a sleazy riff, stomping almost like Led Zeppelin<\/a> but dripping with that late 80s and, more so, early 90s vibe which saw under appreciated acts like Kik Tracee and Spread Eagle vie for attention. Not much else I can say really, except just buy the damn thing!<\/p>\n

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

STREET FIGHTERSecondhand Hero From The Vaults (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Danish heavy metal project Street Fighter has seemingly emerged from nowhere with a sizzler of a record. Don\u2019t be put off by the bad cover art (even though it\u2019s a straight up homage to the 80s), this is a superb debut outing which stirs the 80s metal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-street-fighter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101512","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=101512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101514,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101512\/revisions\/101514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}