{"id":104369,"date":"2024-11-29T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104369"},"modified":"2024-12-13T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:47:23","slug":"album-review-the-watcher-out-of-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-the-watcher-out-of-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WATCHER – Out Of The Dark (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE WATCHER
Out Of The Dark<\/strong><\/span>
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\nCruz Del Sur Music (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t remember when I was first introduced to this Boston, Massachusetts-based three piece but it must\u2019ve been just after their 2021 EP, Your Turn To Die<\/em>, was issued. At the time it was a fleeting meeting that must\u2019ve been so brief that I failed to latch onto the band. Shame on me. Thankfully though I\u2019ve been given a second chance with The Watcher\u2019s debut full-length album, an intriguing s\u00e9ance of sounds that flirts with both heavy and doom metal in equal measure.<\/p>\n

Vocalist Paden Reed has an interesting style, warbling at times like Glen Danzig and then like some rustic yet long forgotten New Wave Of British Heavy Metal singer. The whole vibe here is unorthodox yet familiar, the band providing fluid excerpts of Corrosion Of Conformity on \u2018Burning World\u2019, slipping effortlessly from dark, heavy rock to gloomy meandering tinged with traditional nuances.<\/p>\n

There are whiffs of Pentagram on \u2018Thy Blade, Thy Blood\u2019, but much of what is served here drifts towards a Diamond Head-style of rockin’ married possibly to something like Tygers Of Pan Tang, and yet \u2018The Final Hour\u2019 veers into power metal territory. For me though the band seem most comfortable circa that early 80s NWOBHM as evident on \u2018Strike Back\u2019 and \u2018Kill Or Be Killed\u2019, both of which are gritty, riff heavy and swaggering. Out Of The Dark<\/em> is a strong debut album from a band with a great future ahead.<\/p>\n

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

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