{"id":104988,"date":"2025-05-24T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104988"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:53:56","slug":"ep-review-skyraid-kingdom-of-thall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-skyraid-kingdom-of-thall\/","title":{"rendered":"SKYRAID – Kingdom Of Thall EP (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SKYRAID
\nKingdom Of Thall EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 4\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Before Canadian band Skyraid decided to put this EP out they really should have recruited a new vocalist. I don\u2019t know if Blaise Van Humbeck is the real name of the singer or whether he is in this for jokes, but his tuneless display drags this outing into the depths of amateur corniness.<\/p>\n

Musically, Kingdom Of Thall<\/em> is not the worst release you\u2019ll hear, delivering standard 80s styled crustiness daubed in the dim light of sword, sorcery, dungeons and dragons, but there\u2019s no way that you\u2019ll get past the vocals. As the title track chugs in you\u2019ll find yourself scratching your head at the poor timing.<\/p>\n

To an extent the badness of the voice gives the EP a punky edge, but it\u2019s still no excuse. The combo rambles through a handful of lower league heavy metal that would not normally see the light of day if it wasn\u2019t for the internet age. Even so, Kingdom Of Thall<\/em> came my way and it still deserves a mention, mainly for the song \u2018Eyes Of An Angel\u2019, with its driving guitar work.<\/p>\n

As I said, musically this is quite a solid release \u2013 \u2018Contamination\u2019 exhibits a punky roughness and \u2018Legend Of The Starbeast\u2019 chugs with a dash of menace \u2013 but when you\u2019re playing this it is difficult to oversee the warbles. Slot this back into 1985 and those vocals are still too off kilter to enjoy. Maybe next time guys.<\/p>\n

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

SKYRAID Kingdom Of Thall EP Self-released (2025) Rating: 4\/10 Before Canadian band Skyraid decided to put this EP out they really should have recruited a new vocalist. I don\u2019t know if Blaise Van Humbeck is the real name of the singer or whether he is in this for jokes, but his tuneless display drags this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5925],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-skyraid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104988","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=104988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104995,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104988\/revisions\/104995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}