{"id":98121,"date":"2023-02-24T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=98121"},"modified":"2023-03-01T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T15:49:12","slug":"album-review-fairytale-army-of-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-fairytale-army-of-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIRYTALE &#8211; Army Of Ghosts (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>FAIRYTALE<br \/>Army Of Ghosts<\/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;\">Pure Steel (2023)<\/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\/2023\/03\/fairytale_armyofghosts.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>Emerging with only their third full-length record since forming in 2000, Germany\u2019s Fairytale constructs a vast, steely bridge between traditional and power metal genres.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to monitor the progression of this five-piece combo, simply due to the sporadic nature of releases. Their last album, 2017\u2019s <em>Battlestar Rising<\/em>, was an interesting symphonic sci-fi journey and to an extent it was a world away from their 2011 debut <em>Rise Of The Twilight Lord<\/em>, but one thing you can be certain of with Fairytale is their ability to treat you to galloping rhythms mixed with the soaring melodious vocals of Carsten Hille, who joined the ranks in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This is sturdy, crisp metal with great doses of gloss, streaked with sublime solos and some truly heavyweight grooves, such as on my favourite track \u2018Voices From Inside\u2019. Elements of subtlety creep in too where the enigmatic \u20181428\u2019 trudges smoothly like a mechanical monster lumbering through the battlefield. Elsewhere, \u2018Morningside\u2019 rumbles in epic mid-tempo fashion, \u2018Elizabeth Dane\u2019 ups the haste ever so slightly, and \u2018Possessed\u2019 cavorts in darker trajectories with its fiery vocal sneer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Army Of Ghosts<\/em> is a very solid heavy metal opus that beats with pure heart and molten magic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRYTALEArmy Of Ghosts Pure Steel (2023)Rating: 7.5\/10 Emerging with only their third full-length record since forming in 2000, Germany\u2019s Fairytale constructs a vast, steely bridge between traditional and power metal genres. It\u2019s difficult to monitor the progression of this five-piece combo, simply due to the sporadic nature of releases. Their last album, 2017\u2019s Battlestar Rising, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-fairytale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98121","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=98121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98123,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98121\/revisions\/98123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}