{"id":105903,"date":"2026-03-06T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105903"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:45:59","slug":"album-review-more-destructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-more-destructor\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE – Destructor (2026) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWarhead Music LLP (2026)<\/span>
\nRating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Responsible for two of the finest yet most underrated albums of the 80s \u2013 Warhead<\/em> (1981) and Blood & Thunder<\/em> (1982) \u2013 British band More should have been far more successful than they were, but instead fizzled out shortly afterwards. Since then the band, with a revolving door of members and under several guises (including ExMore and More 2012), re-emerged but no material was ever issued.<\/p>\n

Now, circa 2026, More is officially back under the guidance of longstanding member and bassist Baz Nicholls. He is joined by vocalist Mike Freeland, who arrived in the late 90s, drummer Steve Rix, who joined in 2012, and newest recruit guitarist Peter Welsh.<\/p>\n

Featuring ten tracks with a tidy running time of 46 minutes, Destructor<\/em> is the ballsy, if somewhat sanitised platter I had hoped for. A lot of modern rock \/ metal, and just music in general, seems to succumb to plastic production, and with Destructor<\/em> there are moments when that occurs. Even so, there\u2019s a tightness with this opus too and at times levels of restraint as opener \u2018Heart On Fire\u2019 strides confidently yet also casually. Mike Freeland sounds a tad strained at times, and there are a lot of clich\u00e9d lyrics too, but More remains steadfast, providing straight up melodic metal that still conjures up the spirits of the original New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement, although without the rawness and dark in your face attitude.<\/p>\n

The album does boast a batch of really strong tracks though. Foot tapper \u2018Scream\u2019 sits somewhere between Whitesnake and Led Zeppelin as the vocals smoulder through the heavy traipse. The title track also brings the beefy chugs where the guitars boast a strut n\u2019 swagger and the lyrics showcase the London-based band at their darkest. There\u2019s quite a bit of this sort of mid-paced movement, \u2018My Obsession\u2019 for example, and although the album lacks any sort of haste, songs such as \u2018Immortal\u2019 and \u2018Rocquiem\u2019 are a touch more up-tempo. The band really gets the fire in its belly with namesake closer \u2018More\u2019 and \u2018Spirits Of War\u2019 which impresses particularly in the percussion department. I do wish the production added a layer of grit just to make the whole album less restrained.<\/p>\n

More seem quite content to exist within what is mostly mid-tempo meandering; it\u2019s an album which never really catches fire. Less isn\u2019t exactly More (excuse the pun) because Destructor<\/em> underwhelms, but it\u2019s good to have the band back in some form even if the record doesn\u2019t live up to its title.<\/p>\n

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

MORE Destructor Warhead Music LLP (2026) Rating: 6.5\/10 Responsible for two of the finest yet most underrated albums of the 80s \u2013 Warhead (1981) and Blood & Thunder (1982) \u2013 British band More should have been far more successful than they were, but instead fizzled out shortly afterwards. Since then the band, with a revolving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105903","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=105903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105904,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105903\/revisions\/105904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}