{"id":269,"date":"1984-01-01T00:00:46","date_gmt":"1984-01-01T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=269"},"modified":"2018-07-29T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T13:52:33","slug":"album-review-manilla-road-crystal-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-manilla-road-crystal-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"MANILLA ROAD – Crystal Logic (1983) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MANILLA ROAD
Crystal Logic<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRoadster (1983)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is Manilla Road’s third offering to the metallic globe and is by far their best to date. I was none too impressed with their previous efforts, Invasion<\/em> (1980) and Metal<\/em> (1982), but Crystal Logic<\/em> at least shows promise for the future without exactly setting the world alight.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Manilla Road suffer the same problem as Brocas Helm in sounding a little dated in style. But let’s not take away the musicianship which is quite excellent throughout, especially guitarist Mark Shelton’s riffing and soloing. Although I can’t say I’m too struck on his rather casual vocal style, which doesn’t really suit the music, and reminds me a little of Jim Dandy from Black Oak Arkansas. I much prefer his more aggressive approach, as on ‘The Riddle Master’ – one of the albums best cuts.<\/p>\n

Other noteworthy tracks are the heads down, no nonsense approach of ‘Necropolis’, ‘Crystal Logic’ and the epic ten minutes plus of ‘Dreams Of Eschaton’; even if it does take a while to warm up from its acoustic intro, reminding me a little of Warlord on their Deliver Us<\/em> EP.<\/p>\n

So a step in the right direction for Manilla Road, which will hopefully continue with their next album.<\/p>\n

Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 3 (1984)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILLA ROADCrystal Logic Roadster (1983)Rating: 7\/10 This is Manilla Road’s third offering to the metallic globe and is by far their best to date. I was none too impressed with their previous efforts, Invasion (1980) and Metal (1982), but Crystal Logic at least shows promise for the future without exactly setting the world alight. Unfortunately, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-manilla-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71256,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/71256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}