{"id":83132,"date":"2020-04-24T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=83132"},"modified":"2020-04-25T09:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T09:26:57","slug":"album-review-traveler-termination-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-traveler-termination-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAVELER – Termination Shock (2020) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRAVELER
Termination Shock<\/strong><\/span>
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\nGates Of Hell (2020)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Calgary, Canada-based posse Traveler play bright n\u2019 breezy 80s styled metal that I do enjoy, but just can\u2019t get overly excited about. For me, all this \u201cnew wave of new wave\u201d thing is starting wear thin even if it\u2019s doing great things for the future of metal. But ultimately, it just makes me delve back into the record collection for the old gems which inspired this band\u2019s second full-length studio album Termination Shock<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I hear tracks such as \u2018Shaded Mirror\u2019 and I enjoy the glint and gallop, but there are no frills. The title track speeds things up and brings a decidedly Teutonic haste, while \u2018Foreverman\u2019 adds extra crunch and fizzing aplomb.<\/p>\n

Yep, it\u2019s solid, brisk heavy metal with an equally no frills vocal croon, and that\u2019s all I can really say. Damn, I\u2019ve heard people rave about these guys but it\u2019s as if they\u2019ve never heard another metal band, because Traveler, through all their effort and prowess, are just another band inspired by countless acts before.<\/p>\n

\u2018Diary Of A Maiden\u2019 begins with effective hammering steel and the track is certainly pivotal; the melodic subtleties are appreciated as the song builds nicely within its six-minute time frame. I also really like the glinting steel of \u2018STK\u2019 and particularly the aggressive banger that is \u2018Deepspace\u2019. However, when the 80s suffered through an overwhelming glut of Iron Maiden \/ Judas Priest styled bands, I didn\u2019t expect several decades later to be faced by the same situation.<\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s great that the kids are donning the denim and worshipping the past, but I just don\u2019t see these current albums being remembered years down the line. They may fill a hole for now, but acts such as Traveler will fall by the wayside… although not before this new breed of fan hunts me down and burns me at the stake for criticising such a heap of standard yet mildly entertaining metal.<\/p>\n

If you like driving metal that is at times deft and devious, and are caught up in this trend whereby older acts such as Enforcer are kings and newer acts such as Riot City are princes, then I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll take a risk dabbling in such fires. After all, it\u2019s all metal at the end of the day. For me, however, I just like to see bands stand out from such a vast crowd of armour, and Traveler\u2019s sophomore outing just doesn\u2019t do enough.<\/p>\n

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

TRAVELERTermination Shock Gates Of Hell (2020)Rating: 6\/10 Calgary, Canada-based posse Traveler play bright n\u2019 breezy 80s styled metal that I do enjoy, but just can\u2019t get overly excited about. For me, all this \u201cnew wave of new wave\u201d thing is starting wear thin even if it\u2019s doing great things for the future of metal. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-traveler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132","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=83132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83134,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132\/revisions\/83134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}