{"id":101729,"date":"2023-09-29T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101729"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:51:55","slug":"album-review-kks-priest-the-sinner-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-kks-priest-the-sinner-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"KK\u2019S PRIEST – The Sinner Rides Again (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KK\u2019S PRIEST
The Sinner Rides Again<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNapalm (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Arriving like a sudden clap of thunder, KK\u2019s Priest \u2013 spearheaded by former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing \u2013 embarks on another furious foray. With its fiery artwork and sizzling riffs, The Sinner Rides Again<\/em> is proof that there is always room for more metal in our lives.<\/p>\n

As expected, this opus roars, billows, rattles, screams and gallops, but then again, any band with Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens at the helm is going to smoke. I guess my only issue with Owens is that he remains on overdrive a little too often and such warbling can become a tad distracting. However, it doesn\u2019t prevent this outing from being a full blown fire hazard.<\/p>\n

The Sinner Rides Again<\/em> leaks several modern day classics in the form of \u2018One More Shot At Glory\u2019 and heavyweights \u2018Reap The Whirlwind\u2019 and \u2018Keeper Of The Graves\u2019. In fact, I dare anyone to seek out a more heavy metal record than this as Sean Elg\u2019s drums pound like the heartbeat of a million warriors clashing on the bloody battlefield.<\/p>\n

The album brings evocative acoustic passages alongside speed metal flurries and the more formulaic traditional metal segments, but the result is a rich and molten experience even if one feels that K.K. Downing\u2019s main focus is to simply outdo his old band, Judas Priest. Even so, his axework alongside A.J. Mills is often staggering; the epic \u2018Pledge Your Souls\u2019 and the scorching \u2018Strike Of The Viper\u2019 are prime examples.<\/p>\n

If you like Manowar, Acceot and of course Judas Priest then you\u2019ll wade through the sweaty tides of this with glee. Sure, it\u2019s a bit predictable in its robust rollicking \u2013 hell, it\u2019s even a tad one dimensional with some of its torrents \u2013 but KK\u2019s Priest are not out to reinvent the wheel or the steel but simply add extra armour to such reliable structures.<\/p>\n

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

KK\u2019S PRIESTThe Sinner Rides Again Napalm (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Arriving like a sudden clap of thunder, KK\u2019s Priest \u2013 spearheaded by former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing \u2013 embarks on another furious foray. With its fiery artwork and sizzling riffs, The Sinner Rides Again is proof that there is always room for more metal in our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-kks-priest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101729","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=101729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101730,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101729\/revisions\/101730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}