{"id":103467,"date":"2024-05-31T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103467"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:37:26","slug":"album-review-leadbreaker-overdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-leadbreaker-overdrive\/","title":{"rendered":"LEADBREAKER – Overdrive (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEADBREAKER
Overdrive<\/strong><\/span>
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\nStormspell (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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LeadBreaker don\u2019t mess around and race from the traps like a hare with a rocket up its arse. Overdrive<\/em> is the second album from this Swedish act which, and like so many contemporary metal artists, takes influence from Judas Priest, Accept etc. with sizzling riffs and racing bass and percussion.<\/p>\n

The likes of \u2018Electro Raider\u2019, \u2018Overdrive\u2019 and \u2018Riot\u2019 all skip merrily along like rather tepid speed metal outbursts, although the guys appear more potent with slightly slower and crunchier episodes such as \u2018Hammer Of Vengeance\u2019. The big problem here though is that the songs are too long and would have harboured far more snap if they\u2019d been shortened. \u2018Riot\u2019 is certainly a busy cut, as is \u2018Omerta\u2019, but at over seven and six minutes respectively there is just too much fat.<\/p>\n

Only \u2018Electro Raider\u2019 (at 3:18) feels as zippy as it should be, but even so it\u2019s still solid Swedish metal that probably has more chance of a look in now rather than if it\u2019d been released during the halcyon era. However, so many bands of this traditional metal ilk are vying for pole position and LeadBreaker just doesn\u2019t do enough with their Teutonic fire. \u2018Bitchtit Highway\u2019 features a bluesy solo, \u2018Meat Heart\u2019 stinks of Accept and \u2018The Machine\u2019 is a full steam ahead rocker.<\/p>\n

No doubt fans of acts like Ram and Enforcer will dig the hot flashes supplied by this energetic combo, and while Overdrive<\/em> provided the shot I needed to take on the day, my cravings for it lessen with every listen.<\/p>\n

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

LEADBREAKEROverdrive Stormspell (2024)Rating: 6.5\/10 LeadBreaker don\u2019t mess around and race from the traps like a hare with a rocket up its arse. Overdrive is the second album from this Swedish act which, and like so many contemporary metal artists, takes influence from Judas Priest, Accept etc. with sizzling riffs and racing bass and percussion. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-leadbreaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103467","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=103467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103468,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103467\/revisions\/103468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}