{"id":105640,"date":"2025-10-17T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105640"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:12:31","slug":"album-review-armoured-knight-the-quest-for-the-sacred-melody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-armoured-knight-the-quest-for-the-sacred-melody\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMOURED KNIGHT – The Quest For The Sacred Melody (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARMOURED KNIGHT
\nThe Quest For The Sacred Melody<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDying Victims Productions (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Chilean metallers Armoured Knight has most certainly been on a quest, having first appeared on the scene back in 2009, but it\u2019s clearly taken the band way too long to release a full-length. Okay, I won\u2019t be too harsh seeing as they dissolved five years ago then returned just last year, but c\u2019mon guys, three EPs and a demo in all that time just isn\u2019t good enough. But let\u2019s move on and into the depths of The Quest For The Sacred Melody<\/em>, an eight-song offering that\u2019s just a bit too short at 35 minutes.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only one original member present, and that\u2019s lead guitarist Cristian Le\u00f3n who is joined by vocalist Jos\u00e9 Tapia, bassist Christopher Falk (both of whom have been in the band since 2017) and newest recruit, drummer Mario Vera. The sound of Armoured Knight belongs in the same stratosphere of bands like Blind Guardian and Helloween, except with this composition the production is way off the mark. For some reason the band has suffered at the hands of this awful mix which, obviously, doesn\u2019t benefit the sound at all.<\/p>\n

On the plus side this is a relatively strong if somewhat standard metal platter which boasts plenty of memorable melodies and engaging gallops. \u2018Behind The Mask\u2019 is a personal favourite due to its borderline thrashiness, and as equally nifty is \u2018Forgotten Grace\u2019. The combo certainly possesses talent which enables their successful navigation of a well trodden path. There are moments of pure yet musty 80s nostalgia, so maybe the odd production is intentional in summoning such ghosts.<\/p>\n

Tapia doesn\u2019t exactly warm the soul, his tones are off-kilter like a sword n\u2019 sorcery obsessed teenager trying to direct his uninterested friends into battle across the fens. However, I\u2019m constantly drawn into the speed metal aesthetics as early Running Wild are regularly touched on, but the mid-range stuffiness of \u2018Endless Light\u2019 also appeals like some crusty long lost power metal demo track from 1987.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no denying the charm in this release, the obvious flaws somehow providing extra layers of weird warmth. \u2018Oath Of The Sacred Melody\u2019 is a noodle-fest that\u2019ll appeal to the dead head shredders, proof also though that this album offers different avenues within its fret-frazzling framework. The goblins will no doubt be kept from the door with the force that is Armoured Knight.<\/p>\n

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

ARMOURED KNIGHT The Quest For The Sacred Melody Dying Victims Productions (2025) Rating: 7\/10 Chilean metallers Armoured Knight has most certainly been on a quest, having first appeared on the scene back in 2009, but it\u2019s clearly taken the band way too long to release a full-length. Okay, I won\u2019t be too harsh seeing as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-armoured-knight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105640","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=105640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105641,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105640\/revisions\/105641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}