{"id":3377,"date":"1984-03-01T00:00:12","date_gmt":"1984-03-01T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2013-06-01T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:56:30","slug":"album-review-dark-wizard-devils-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-dark-wizard-devils-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"DARK WIZARD &#8211; Devil\u2019s Victim (1984) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>DARK WIZARD<br \/>Devil\u2019s Victim<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" height=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"title3\"><span style=\"color: #c80000;\">Mausoleum (1984)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/darkwizard_devilsvictim.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>We reviewed Dark Wizard\u2019s demo in issue #3 of <em>Metal Forces<\/em> and now the Dutch rockers have released this five-track mini-album.<\/p>\n<p>Side one opens up with the fast paced \u2018Trip Of Doom\u2019 followed by \u2018Big Typhoon\u2019, which after a poor bluesy type intro picks up speed to a frenzied assault of mayhem that is matched by \u2018Poisoned Whiskey\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, side two is a bit of a letdown with \u2018Mr Nice\u2019 and \u2018Devil\u2019s Victim\u2019 not producing the same sort of excitement level as those tracks on side one. However, a good vinyl debut and still worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 4 (1984)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARK WIZARDDevil\u2019s Victim Mausoleum (1984)Rating: 7\/10 We reviewed Dark Wizard\u2019s demo in issue #3 of Metal Forces and now the Dutch rockers have released this five-track mini-album. Side one opens up with the fast paced \u2018Trip Of Doom\u2019 followed by \u2018Big Typhoon\u2019, which after a poor bluesy type intro picks up speed to a frenzied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-dark-wizard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","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=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11889,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/11889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}