{"id":4054,"date":"1984-03-01T00:00:20","date_gmt":"1984-03-01T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2020-04-22T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T18:22:57","slug":"ep-review-wyzard-future-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-wyzard-future-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"WYZARD &#8211; Future Knights EP (1984) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>WYZARD<br \/>Future Knights EP<\/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;\">Pazazu (1984)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 8\/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\/wyzard_futureknights.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>Wyzard are a young four-piece metal band from San Antonio, Texas and <em>Future Knights<\/em> is their debut vinyl release. Each of the four tracks on this mini-album \u2013 \u2018Future Knights\u2019, \u2018Renegade\u2019, \u2018Crystal City\u2019 and \u2018Knights Of Metal\u2019 \u2013 are pure out-and-out metal delivered in a fast \u2019n\u2019 furious style.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Michael Angelo Valenzuela produces some fine power riffing and soloing throughout the proceedings, especially on \u2018Knights Of Metal\u2019 which for me is the best track, even if the riff is almost a carbon copy of the old Montrose classic \u2018Black Train\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt power metal enthusiasts will lap up every minute of this album, and deservedly so too. A fine debut.<\/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>WYZARDFuture Knights EP Pazazu (1984)Rating: 8\/10 Wyzard are a young four-piece metal band from San Antonio, Texas and Future Knights is their debut vinyl release. Each of the four tracks on this mini-album \u2013 \u2018Future Knights\u2019, \u2018Renegade\u2019, \u2018Crystal City\u2019 and \u2018Knights Of Metal\u2019 \u2013 are pure out-and-out metal delivered in a fast \u2019n\u2019 furious style. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-wyzard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","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=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83166,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/83166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}