{"id":3540,"date":"1984-01-01T00:00:12","date_gmt":"1984-01-01T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2013-06-01T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:59:32","slug":"album-review-killer-shock-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-killer-shock-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"KILLER – Shock Waves (1984) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KILLER
Shock Waves<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMausoleum (1984)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the Belgian\u2019s third album and there can be no doubt that Shock Waves<\/em> is a worthy follow-up to the band\u2019s highly acclaimed Wall Of Sound<\/em> album.<\/p>\n

In the past, Killer have been labelled as Belgium\u2019s answer to Mot\u00f6rhead. Well, those influences can be no more evident than on the opening title track, which has a drum intro similar to \u2018Overkill\u2019 before steamrollering along at a fast and thunderous pace, complete with Lemmy-like vocals et al. A truly great opener. However, Killer are at their best when they throw a touch of melody into the affray, as on \u2018In The Name Of The Law\u2019; a hard driving epic of titanic proportions. Which is matched only by the excellent \u2018In The Eye Of My Gun\u2019, a kind of Mot\u00f6rhead meets Queensr\u00ffche classic, which blitzkriegs its way into the instrumental \u2018King Kong\u2019. Great stuff!<\/p>\n

The remaining numbers on the album \u2013 \u2018Scarecrow\u2019, \u2018Blood On The Chains\u2019, \u2018Richter Scale 12\u2019 and \u2018Time Bomb\u2019 \u2013 are all constructed to enable you to bang your head at will, although I must say that the latter is a rather disappointing album closer compared with the excellence of the rest of the material.<\/p>\n

Still, buy Shock Waves<\/em> at all costs; a valuable addition to any metal freak\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

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

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

KILLERShock Waves Mausoleum (1984)Rating: 9\/10 This is the Belgian\u2019s third album and there can be no doubt that Shock Waves is a worthy follow-up to the band\u2019s highly acclaimed Wall Of Sound album. In the past, Killer have been labelled as Belgium\u2019s answer to Mot\u00f6rhead. Well, those influences can be no more evident than on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-killer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","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=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11898,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/11898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}