{"id":104241,"date":"2024-11-22T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104241"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:38:47","slug":"album-reviews-sign-of-the-jackal-heavy-metal-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-reviews-sign-of-the-jackal-heavy-metal-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGN OF THE JACKAL – Heavy Metal Survivors (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SIGN OF THE JACKAL
Heavy Metal Survivors<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDying Victims Productions (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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After a couple of changes in personnel (Dave L. \u201cDr\u00f6z\u201d replacing Max Pinkle on guitar and Frederick \u201cTriple F\u201d replacing Nick \u201cDevilDrunk\u201d on bass), Italian rockers Sign Of The Jackal embark upon their third full-length.<\/p>\n

I was a big fan of the band\u2019s 2013 debut Mark Of The Beast<\/em>, but it would be another five years before sophomore outing Breaking The Spell<\/em> emerged, and that one passed me by. However, Sign Of The Jackal is now back after a six year silence with this latest effort.<\/p>\n

Introduction \u2018Eulogy Of The Survivors’ pays homage to M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce\u2019s \u2018In The Beginning\u2019 before \u2018Breaking The Spell\u2019 kicks in like a speedier version of Cr\u00fce\u2019s classic \u2018Live Wire\u2019. As with previous albums, Heavy Metal Survivors<\/em> is happy to wear its influences on its denim sleeve as the clan marches through steamy streets of early-to-mid 80s metal as the likes of W.A.S.P., Warlock, Twisted Sister, Lizzy Borden and the aforementioned M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce get reincarnated via a batch of fiery numbers.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a post apocalyptic menace about the rich riffage of \u2018Nightmare City\u2019, as one envisions lawless streets run by leather-clad and long-haired gangs. \u2018Shocker\u2019 is as equally rebellious, stomping like heavy glam fused with shock rock as the meaty riffs strike in tandem with the hefty percussive chimes. This is the sound of true heavy metal that your parents were scared of back in 1985. Fists pump and chests pound to the steady M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce-esque anthem of \u2018(You Better) Run For Tomorrow\u2019, while \u2018Watch Out\u2019 is borderline speed metal in its fury as Accept and Exciter collide.<\/p>\n

The only thing this album is missing is a band photo on a wasteland of rubble and twisted, crushed futuristic vehicles. Laura \u201cDemons Queen\u201d Coller continues to lead her mob beyond the thunder dome as she wails commands like a Bronx Warrior banshee. The alleyways are strewn with litter, blown furiously by the sizzling streaks of \u2018Pedal To The Metal\u2019, the cauldron of Dokken, Warlock and Acid is stirred as satanic sirens fill the air and Molotov cocktails puncture already shattered window panes of sombre buildings.<\/p>\n

Heavy Metal Survivors<\/em> is the Mad Max of metal albums, falsely futuristic yet naively primitive\u2026 and I love it.<\/p>\n

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

SIGN OF THE JACKALHeavy Metal Survivors Dying Victims Productions (2024)Rating: 8\/10 After a couple of changes in personnel (Dave L. \u201cDr\u00f6z\u201d replacing Max Pinkle on guitar and Frederick \u201cTriple F\u201d replacing Nick \u201cDevilDrunk\u201d on bass), Italian rockers Sign Of The Jackal embark upon their third full-length. I was a big fan of the band\u2019s 2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5829],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-sign-of-the-jackal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104241","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=104241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104242,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104241\/revisions\/104242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}