{"id":102503,"date":"2024-02-23T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102503"},"modified":"2024-03-01T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:42:05","slug":"album-review-iron-curtain-savage-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-iron-curtain-savage-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"IRON CURTAIN – Savage Dawn (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

IRON CURTAIN
Savage Dawn<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDying Victims Productions (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I really like the album cover for what is the fifth full-length opus from this Spanish bunch which formed in 2007. With Iron Curtain you know what you are getting; straight up speedy destruction equipped with a Mad Max sort of apocalyptic mayhem that clanks to the sound of rattling chains.<\/p>\n

Iron Curtain take a dollop of traditional metal but bridge the gap with speed metal and coat it all in a scalding dust. There are no real surprises with Savage Dawn<\/em>, and no one was expecting any, but what we do get is a volatile album that spits and sneers like old Slayer<\/a>, early Metallica, Mot\u00f6rhead and Venom as exhibited on \u2018Devil\u2019s Eyes\u2019 with its ferocious axe work and snapping vocals. \u2018Gypsy Rocker\u2019 boasts a New Wave Of British Heavy Metal rustiness coupled with Mot\u00f6rhead in that punky guitar tone.<\/p>\n

The dynamics rarely change as the album unravels to reveal a plethora of similarly designed speed metal romps such as \u2018Thy Wolf\u2019 and \u2018Tyger Speed\u2019, but I enjoyed the punky intro to \u2018Evil Is Everywhere\u2019 and the strong Mot\u00f6rhead vibes on \u2018Rattlesnake\u2019.<\/p>\n

There have never been any heirs and graces about Iron Curtain and their oxidized rambles, and with Savage Dawn<\/em> I find a degree of comfort in such drunken brawls.<\/p>\n

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

IRON CURTAINSavage Dawn Dying Victims Productions (2024)Rating: 7.5\/10 I really like the album cover for what is the fifth full-length opus from this Spanish bunch which formed in 2007. With Iron Curtain you know what you are getting; straight up speedy destruction equipped with a Mad Max sort of apocalyptic mayhem that clanks to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-iron-curtain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503","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=102503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102504,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503\/revisions\/102504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}