{"id":104259,"date":"2024-11-22T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104259"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T12:42:19","slug":"album-review-raptore-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-raptore-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"RAPTORE – Renaissance (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAPTORE
Renaissance<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"\"
\nDying Victims Productions \/ Tapes Of Terror (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Two years ago Barcelona, Spain-based Raptore released a rollicking sophomore outing in the form of Blackfire<\/em><\/a>, so it\u2019s good to have the lads back with their third platter. As I expected this is more glam-tinged metal that\u2019s catchy and accessible and rewarding in its anthemic content.<\/p>\n

As opener \u2018Satana\u2019 attests, Raptore is more than capable of delivering fleet-of-foot hard rock boasting airy choruses and crisp rhythms. Admittedly, \u2018Satana\u2019 is a bit too pop tinged for my liking even with its nod to late 80s melodic metal. It wouldn\u2019t seem out of place on Vain\u2019s 1989 cult debut album No Respect<\/em>, but throughout this latest offering there\u2019s a bit too much of the lighter side going on here as \u2018Abaddon\u2019 briskly provides pomp to a New York Dolls-style hook.<\/p>\n

Nico Cattoni\u2019s vocals are harmless bubblegum yaps that lack conviction this time round, but in general the band appears to have offloaded the armour from last time and replaced it with something breezier, which a shame because the opening chords on \u2018Kingdom Come\u2019 are truly bruising.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no denying the ability and creative process here, \u2018Imperium\u2019 is speedy and aggressive and the bass heavy \u2018Into The Bowels\u2019 chugs nicely, but this is a record that just doesn\u2019t have the effect I anticipated. Instead, one gets a rather bland record let down even further by the rather flat mix. Shades of M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Dokken, Ratt and White Lion remain but the punch and vim is absent. Unfortunately, Renaissance<\/em> is one the biggest disappointments of 2024 and that makes me sad.<\/p>\n

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

RAPTORERenaissance Dying Victims Productions \/ Tapes Of Terror (2024)Rating: 6.5\/10 Two years ago Barcelona, Spain-based Raptore released a rollicking sophomore outing in the form of Blackfire, so it\u2019s good to have the lads back with their third platter. As I expected this is more glam-tinged metal that\u2019s catchy and accessible and rewarding in its anthemic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-raptore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104259","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=104259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104266,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104259\/revisions\/104266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}