{"id":96843,"date":"2022-10-21T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=96843"},"modified":"2022-11-24T18:32:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T18:32:56","slug":"ep-review-vigilance-vigilance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-vigilance-vigilance\/","title":{"rendered":"VIGILANCE &#8211; Vigilance EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>VIGILANCE<br \/>Vigilance 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;\">Dying Victims Productions (2022)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 7.5\/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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vigilance_vigilanceep.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" 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>Postojna in Slovenia is the setting for what is a rather impressive new five-song EP from an overlooked band that has been plying its trade since 2010. With four full-length studio albums under their belt, Vigilance comes fully armoured for another batch of tunes propelled by the rather masterly percussion of Tine Kalu\u017ea.<\/p>\n<p>If you like that early 80s vibe whereby the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement was somehow creating a speed metal ethos then you\u2019ll dig Vigilance. This is a straight-up metal extravaganza dripping with nostalgic cob-webs while remaining edgy enough to never be perceived as stale mimicry.<\/p>\n<p>The vocals of guitarist Gilian Adam are rough enough to toy with a Mot\u00f6rhead-cum-Running Wild aesthetic, but the all-round sound is one that bristles with retro charm while somehow maintaining its own fiery guise of mystery and occultism.<\/p>\n<p>The fact these guys have previously covered Bathory\u2019s classic cut \u2018Sacrifice\u2019 is testimony to their versatility, because one minute they are thrashing with demonic rage and the next channelling all manner of classic acts from Tokyo Blade to Venom via a Teutonic lashing.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s plenty of fretboard savagery and occult tomfoolery but it\u2019s all serious and supercharged, and while Vigilance is certainly comfortable in its skin there are moments which showcase how the band has progressed from those early frenzied assaults. If I were you I\u2019d jump on the Vigilance bandwagon and give the back catalogue a try too, because these guys are criminally underrated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIGILANCEVigilance EP Dying Victims Productions (2022)Rating: 7.5\/10 Postojna in Slovenia is the setting for what is a rather impressive new five-song EP from an overlooked band that has been plying its trade since 2010. With four full-length studio albums under their belt, Vigilance comes fully armoured for another batch of tunes propelled by the rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-vigilance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96843","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=96843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96854,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96843\/revisions\/96854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}