{"id":102255,"date":"2024-01-26T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102255"},"modified":"2024-02-01T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:34:57","slug":"album-review-savaged-night-stealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-savaged-night-stealer\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVAGED – Night Stealer (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAVAGED
Night Stealer<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNo Remorse (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s not worry about the blandness of the band name, let us instead concentrate on the album artwork and the music within. Savaged is a killer Spanish combo that delivers potent and pure metal that harkens back to Judas Priest and the likes while nodding towards today\u2019s traditional acts like Enforcer and Skull Fist.<\/p>\n

Vocally, the tone of Jamie Killhead is a high one which soars above a sea of sizzling leads and scorching riffs. It\u2019s certainly a fun heap of throwback metal not far removed from, say, Hitten, although there is a somewhat glammy edge on cuts like \u2018Elm Street\u2019, but the steel spine is a constant as are those fiery executions.<\/p>\n

Admittedly there are a lot of bands of this ilk around, and there have been for decades, but one can\u2019t deny the energy this platter gives off. Helloween melodies ensue on opening galloper \u2018I Will Fight\u2019, a sturdy slice of Teutonic steel with laced with speed metal nuances and gothic vapours. \u2018Tons Of Leather\u2019 marches with menace; it\u2019s a rich and smouldering track I\u2019d happily play alongside classic W.A.S.P. or Lizzy Borden.<\/p>\n

Both \u2018Knights Of Metal\u2019 and \u2018Money Sucks\u2019 are hasty numbers led by Cristian Blade\u2019s percussion, while \u2018Running For Your Love (Tonight)\u2019 is even faster, so one cannot overlook the exuberance here as the quartet zips through an array of vibrant songs led by those falsettos. Yes, at times the album feels dated, but that\u2019s its aim \u2013 just look at the moustaches on the band members!<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll hear plenty of Iron Maiden-esque melodies and familiar segments unintentionally ripped with nostalgic chords, and that\u2019s the comfort blanket here for what is essentially an enchanting if outmoded vehicle.<\/p>\n

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

SAVAGEDNight Stealer No Remorse (2024)Rating: 7\/10 Let\u2019s not worry about the blandness of the band name, let us instead concentrate on the album artwork and the music within. Savaged is a killer Spanish combo that delivers potent and pure metal that harkens back to Judas Priest and the likes while nodding towards today\u2019s traditional acts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-savaged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102255","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=102255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102652,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102255\/revisions\/102652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}