{"id":104683,"date":"2025-03-28T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104683"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:31:05","slug":"album-review-chamber-mage-by-light-of-emerald-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-chamber-mage-by-light-of-emerald-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAMBER MAGE – By Light Of Emerald Gods (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHAMBER MAGE
By Light Of Emerald Gods<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNameless Grave (2025)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Draw your swords and take to the fens as these Colorado warriors go into battle with their debut full-length album. \u201cI hope the Gods hear my call,\u201d<\/em> croons Avery Berg, who I\u2019m sure spends many of his singing days atop a misty mountain wailing to the heavens. Yeah, there\u2019s a cheesy coating to such shenanigans of sorcery, but this debut has a skittish charm and playfulness as opener \u2018In Battle\u2019 sounds exactly as you\u2019d expect; anthemic, and striding with the same purpose and intensity of a teenager embarking on a new Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> adventure.<\/p>\n

I have to be honest, I\u2019m not really quite sure why or to who this sort of heavy metal appeals to, but then again look at how popular television series Game Of Thrones<\/em> was! There is still, and amusingly so, a penchant for such battle worn tales and as \u2018Blades On The Rampart\u2019 gallops from beneath the portcullis, across the drawbridge and out onto the badlands I\u2019m tapping along like a hypocritical twat, buoyed by the tepid tomfoolery.<\/p>\n

There are grand pictures here to be painted as \u2018Beyond The Lighthouse\u2019 taps in with a simple, stark beat and lukewarm axe sizzle like it\u2019s 1982 in rainy Britain. Maybe that\u2019s where the charm lies, somewhere betwixt early 80s British mysticism and mid-80s Euro moustache metal epitomised by the doomy and delicious opening plod on \u2018To Spires Deep And Caverns High (Riders Of The Iron River)\u2019. It\u2019s a shame then that the clan has to so hastily resort to more generic galloping. Even so, there\u2019s an air of Manilla Road, cool shades of Cirith Ungol, Brocas Helm and that sort of troglodyte metal.<\/p>\n

I really think there\u2019s scope here amidst the cheese crust for Chamber Mage to be a real metal force; just listen to the opening of \u2018The Length Of The Chain\u2019 or the trudging gloom of \u2018The Emerald Tower Revealed\u2019 to understand what this mob can do. My only advice to Chamber Mage would be to not always rely on those nifty formulaic gallops, because there is clearly more to their arsenal than horse riding! The almost thrashy riff and clubhammer drums of \u2018Bishop\u2019s Vengeance\u2019 and brooding atmosphere, cello and sizzling lead work on \u2018The Silver City Fell\u2019 provide further enjoyment. I\u2019ve shocked myself by liking this so give it a whirl while painting those citadel miniatures.<\/p>\n

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

CHAMBER MAGEBy Light Of Emerald Gods Nameless Grave (2025)Rating: 7\/10 Draw your swords and take to the fens as these Colorado warriors go into battle with their debut full-length album. \u201cI hope the Gods hear my call,\u201d croons Avery Berg, who I\u2019m sure spends many of his singing days atop a misty mountain wailing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-chamber-mage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104683","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=104683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104685,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104683\/revisions\/104685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}