{"id":102990,"date":"2024-04-08T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102990"},"modified":"2024-04-23T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:44:21","slug":"album-reviews-pectora-twilight-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-reviews-pectora-twilight-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"PECTORA – Twilight Knights (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

PECTORA
Twilight Knights<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Why this is only the Danish band\u2019s second full-length album since forming in 2011 we will never know, but the wonderfully decorated Twilight Knights<\/em> is a welcome addition to any collection. Since 2020 Pectora has featured a \u201cnew\u201d vocalist in Philip Butler, who replaces Kenneth Jacobsen who sang on the 2019 debut album Untaken<\/em>. The rest of the line-up still features original guitarists Morten S. Nielsen and S\u00f8ren Weiss Kristiansen alongside drummer Nicolas Krauns\u00f8e Frandsen, while in 2023 Gustav Solberg took up bass duties.<\/p>\n

What you get here is a straight up heavy metal platter that mixes early Queensr\u00ffche, Dio, Iron Maiden and the likes, the result being a rather no frills but accomplished rocker that\u2019s meaty and melodic, although overall lacks staying power on the stereo. That\u2019s not to say that quality is lacking because it\u2019s all very fluid, at times even reminding me of Nevermore, but there\u2019s so much of this metal around that it is going to take something very special to stand out among the glut of throwback bands.<\/p>\n

I guess my main quibble here is the unevenness because while \u2018Victory In Defeat\u2019 boasts that nostalgic, old school fire \u2013 as does the title track \u2013 there are a few songs such as \u2018Cold Void\u2019 that feel too contemporary and colourless. Strangely, after a handful of rather uneventful songs (\u2018A Race Through The Dark\u2019 and \u2018Children Of The Atom\u2019) the band whips up a nine-minute finale in the form of \u2018On Forlorn Wings\u2019 which is brooding yet tight and melodic.<\/p>\n

I just feel that Pectora is a confused beast, one still yet to find a true identity amidst what are out of place grooves and some awkward vocal shifts. I\u2019m sure ravenous metalheads will lap this up, but for me it is lacking in several departments.<\/p>\n

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

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