{"id":104186,"date":"2024-11-12T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104186"},"modified":"2024-11-12T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:23:37","slug":"album-review-gauntlet-rule-after-the-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-gauntlet-rule-after-the-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"GAUNTLET RULE – After The Kill (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAUNTLET RULE
After The Kill<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFighter (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Guitarist Rogga Johansson, alongside fellow journeymen Teddy M\u00f6ller (vocals) and Peter Svensson (bass), is back in the Gauntlet Rule fold, two years after the Swedish band\u2019s debut full-length outing The Plague Court<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I have to confess that I\u2019ve rarely been excited for a majority of Johansson\u2019s projects and while that statement rings true again, this latest album is one of the more entertaining from his discography.<\/p>\n

Stepping outside of the rather tired death metal chugging, Johansson focuses instead on a more traditional metal approach. It\u2019s still not the most fluid of projects due to the at times irritating vocal warbles of M\u00f6ller, but it entertains nonetheless.<\/p>\n

The sound in general is warm and inviting and there is that merging of traditional and power metal as each track gallops along to the tidy chimes of Marcus Rosenqvist\u2019s percussion. A majority of the tracks dwell in mid-tempo range, although the mob are more than capable of speeding things up or injecting variations such as on the closing colossus \u2018The Scythe\u2019 where the sound is more grandiose, a soundtrack if you will to accompany you into battle.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, \u2018Bite The Hand That Feeds\u2019 ups the pace and provides extra vim and snap, \u2018Exception To The Rule\u2019 has an Iron Maiden vibe, although Teddy M\u00f6ller is rather inconsistent with the vocal prowess. \u201cAlas! The time has come to us,\u201d<\/em> bellows M\u00f6ller on the brisk \u2018The Night Wind\u2019, a firm favourite of mine with its energetic loping and steely rhythms, although I couldn\u2019t help but chuckle when the lyrics \u201cStill their pricked by Satan\u2019s prongs\u201d<\/em> hit \u2013 I could smell the cheese a mile off.<\/p>\n

Obviously Gauntlet Rule is a serious metal band, but all too often I find myself amused by the lyrical content yet bored by the familiar gallops. Still, After The Kill<\/em> is a sturdy enough album but not one I\u2019ll be returning to.<\/p>\n

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

GAUNTLET RULEAfter The Kill Fighter (2024)Rating: 6\/10 Guitarist Rogga Johansson, alongside fellow journeymen Teddy M\u00f6ller (vocals) and Peter Svensson (bass), is back in the Gauntlet Rule fold, two years after the Swedish band\u2019s debut full-length outing The Plague Court. I have to confess that I\u2019ve rarely been excited for a majority of Johansson\u2019s projects and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-gauntlet-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104186","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=104186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104188,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104186\/revisions\/104188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}