{"id":105009,"date":"2025-06-13T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105009"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:08:50","slug":"album-review-savaged-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-savaged-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVAGED – Rising (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNo Remorse (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Spain is burnin\u2019 up again as 80s metal worshippers Savaged unleash their latest full-length album Rising<\/em>, which comes hot on the heels of last year\u2019s Night Stealer<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Featuring members of Raptore (who I like) and playing the likes of Enforcer at their own game, Barcelona\u2019s Savaged is the sort of band who, if they were around 40 years ago, would probably feature on the soundtrack to a horror movie, especially the song \u2018The Conqueror\u2019. Even so, Rising<\/em> is quite polished in sound which tends to dampen the fires a bit, resulting in an album that\u2019s far more restrained than it should be. It still enchants and entertains, although Jamie Killhead has a strong but unremarkable voice that leads this invasion into the realms of second division heavy metal.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fire It Up\u2019 is a potent way to kick off the album as there\u2019s solid melody and engaging guitar work. Hints of Dokken are sprinkled throughout; that sort of driving heavy rock which is easily accessible and nods towards power metal but without quite getting there. I also hear shades of Helloween, especially on the closing title track, and there are streaks of Riot, Scorpions and Judas Priest too.<\/p>\n

So what you\u2019re essentially getting here is a reliable outing entrenched in the glistening auras of the 80s, more so with standout song \u2018Stars Are Falling\u2019, a scintillating and uplifting sizzler that reminds me of Icon and could\u2019ve easily been an accidental hit if released in the 80s. I guess at their most boisterous Savaged approaches a latter day Lizzy Borden-style of theatre but without the theatre.<\/p>\n

Tracks such as \u2018Texas (Bloody Texas)\u2019 hit the more energetic end of the scale where the vocals are rich and the instruments drive hard. \u2018The Long Walk\u2019 opens with a chord not too far removed from W.A.S.P., before galloping nicely. That can also be said for \u2018Queen Of My Salvation\u2019, another exuberant and buoyant number with a brisk air, while \u2018Across The Burning Fields\u2019 is pacey and delivered with Teutonic passion.<\/p>\n

This is all formulaic but there\u2019s an obvious thirst for traditional metal and I do believe that Savaged will draw a decent amount of attention from metalheads across Europe at the very least.<\/p>\n

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

SAVAGED Rising No Remorse (2025) Rating: 6.5\/10 Spain is burnin\u2019 up again as 80s metal worshippers Savaged unleash their latest full-length album Rising, which comes hot on the heels of last year\u2019s Night Stealer. Featuring members of Raptore (who I like) and playing the likes of Enforcer at their own game, Barcelona\u2019s Savaged is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-savaged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105009","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=105009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105015,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105009\/revisions\/105015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}