{"id":99511,"date":"2023-04-20T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=99511"},"modified":"2023-04-24T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:22:17","slug":"album-review-frenzy-of-hoods-and-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-frenzy-of-hoods-and-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"FRENZY – Of Hoods And Masks (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRENZY
Of Hoods And Masks<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFighter (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With its eye-catching cover artwork, Of Hoods And Masks<\/em> emerges strong out of the traps and signals the return of Spanish heavy metal act Frenzy, who released their debut full-length opus, Blind Justice<\/em>, in 2019. This latest effort contains nine tracks, including a conceptual story spread across the first seven songs inspired by the Watchmen<\/em> graphic novel.<\/p>\n

Very much pure heavy metal rich with excellent axe work, Of Hoods And Masks<\/em> is soulful in the vocal department thanks to Anthony Stephen, but musically is does feel a touch tinny due to its production which means that the sound in general feels a touch restrained.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the record is rather short at 35 minutes and so it remains rather entertaining even with the cover of Rick Springfield\u2019s \u2018Living In Oz\u2019. Even so, if you like straight up metal that has a contemporary feel then it\u2019s certainly worth giving this one a go, more so for the crafty axe work from Luis Pinedo and Alex Gabasa. There are a lot of catchy choruses on offer too. \u2018Where Is The Joke?\u2019 strikes immediately, but the band seems to come into its own on the far heavier and slower tracks such as \u2018Fear The Hood\u2019 which really does boast a menace in its riffs and extra meat in the vocal delivery.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the clean, crisp and subtle \u2018Spectre Of Love\u2019 boasts power and fragility in equal measure and \u2018Uncompromised\u2019 sizzles on the edge of power metal with its hefty gallop. This is solid metal bolstered by that axe wizardry and that\u2019s as much as I can say.<\/p>\n

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

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