{"id":17915,"date":"2014-03-06T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=17915"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T13:30:36","slug":"album-review-miracle-master-tattooed-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-miracle-master-tattooed-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"MIRACLE MASTER – Tattooed Woman (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIRACLE MASTER
Tattooed Woman<\/strong><\/span>
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Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I do like a chunk of meaty, melodic metal and Miracle Master immediately grab me by the balls with those rich vocals and steely riffs. Miracle Master are a German \/ Danish quintet who have risen from the ashes of Pump, and feature vocalist Oliver Weers, guitarists Axel \u2018Aki\u2019 Reissmann and Marcel \u2018Selly\u2019 Bernhardt, bassist Michael Vetter and drummer Andreas Minich.<\/p>\n

Before I cranked this up I was wondering just what on earth these guys would sound like? I thought that maybe there would be a sleazy edge, or maybe something very modern sounding, but I was wrong on both accounts because this is such a rewarding opus.<\/p>\n

To describe it as melodic heavy metal wouldn\u2019t do this 11-track platter justice, because as soon as one hears the chant of \u201cHey!\u201d<\/em> on opener \u2018Come Alive\u2019 I\u2019m just reminded of pure late 80s American-influenced heavy metal. Try to imagine Whitesnake but at their most cutting edge with the little known grooves of Seattle\u2019s War Babies. It\u2019s not that Miracle Master are so hard to describe but in their simplicity they just rock so hard, and yet feature some truly golden melodies which are delivered with delicious quality from Weers.<\/p>\n

Riff-wise Tattooed Woman<\/em> is an extravaganza of an album that is burning hot with molten metal, and the whole record just flows so well, deviating between huge, fleshy chunks of fluent metal and simmering melodic moments.<\/p>\n

\u2018Come Alive\u2019 is without a shadow of a doubt one of 2014\u2019s most explosive tracks and once its hooks are in, well, there\u2019s no going back. \u2018Tear Down The Walls\u2019 is just as beefy, delivering a massive riff and booming chorus, but this record just gets stronger and stronger with every track it spews forth. The rock \u2019n\u2019 growl of \u2018We All Touch Evil\u2019 begins with an AC\/DC-styled guitar twinge before burning up like a comet in the night sky. Hell, this is as fiery as modern metal gets and yet not once does it rely on nostalgia or mimicry \u2013 it just has such a natural sense about it as it flows through the cracks like an ever flowing golden stream of substantial riffs and ample percussion.<\/p>\n

The guitars on the album just meander like a smooth-skinned beast, rarely raunchy but just robust, taking the idea of Whitesnake but just making it so much more convincing – as \u2018Why Religion\u2019, with its monster riff, \u2018Fly Away\u2019 and the bluesy \u2018Highway To Heaven\u2019 will attest. I\u2019m even reminded of the ballsy Beautiful Creatures \u2013 but one bereft of glitter \u2013 such is the presence of this ballsy record which has the killer choruses to match. \u2018Stay With Me\u2019 is an absolute behemoth, and the depth of \u2018Miracle Master\u2019 just cannot be rivaled as it thrashes to its hilt.<\/p>\n

I may be sick to death of countless bands trying to sound \u201cmetal\u201d but without conviction, however, Miracle Master has so effortlessly breathed new light into the metal genre by being so darn simple. By weaving together churning guitars, thunderous drums and bludgeoning bass \u2013 all lead out from the wilderness by those fiery vocals \u2013 Tattooed Woman<\/em> is probably the most metal album you will hear this year; an album that is masculine, mature, well-rounded and honest. But above all, this album rocks… very, very hard.<\/p>\n

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

MIRACLE MASTERTattooed Woman GoldenCore \/ ZXY Music (2014)Rating: 8.5\/10 I do like a chunk of meaty, melodic metal and Miracle Master immediately grab me by the balls with those rich vocals and steely riffs. Miracle Master are a German \/ Danish quintet who have risen from the ashes of Pump, and feature vocalist Oliver Weers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-miracle-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915","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=17915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17918,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions\/17918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}