{"id":99926,"date":"2023-04-21T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=99926"},"modified":"2023-05-18T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:25:59","slug":"album-review-sintage-paralyzing-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-sintage-paralyzing-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"SINTAGE &#8211; Paralyzing Chains (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>SINTAGE<br \/>Paralyzing Chains<\/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;\">High Roller (2023)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 7\/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\/05\/sintage_paralyzingchains.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>After a decent EP \u2013 <em>The Sign<\/em> \u2013 which was released in 2021, German rockers Sintage lets loose a lethal debut full-length album that channels the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal alongside bands such as fellow countrymen Running Wild. Rollicking and galloping anthems abound with this affair that strikes not only from its high energy tunes but also its cover artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sintage aren\u2019t out of the ordinary they still march headlong as a heavy metal army equipped with solid production and steely songs that run in rampant fashion. The album is epitomised by opening juggernaut \u2018Midnight Evil\u2019 which speeds and rattles like a hyper Iron Maiden as frontman Randy provides a no frills yet eager snap.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly the album has no real deviation with only \u2018Rocking Hard\u2019 lowers its tempo while the rest of the tracks all trundle in similar fashion, but they do remain hard, robust and energetically delivered metal tracks that wouldn\u2019t seem out of place in 1986. The likes of \u2018Venom\u2019, \u2018Wild Dogs\u2019 and \u2018Blazing Desaster\u2019 all boast that familiar yet bruising assault built upon the sturdy foundation of drummer Andre.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paralyzing Chains<\/em> is simply tight, pacey heavy metal that was common in the golden era but is still much needed now as so many bands succumb to corporate gloss and diluted commercialism. Sintage rocks hard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINTAGEParalyzing Chains High Roller (2023)Rating: 7\/10 After a decent EP \u2013 The Sign \u2013 which was released in 2021, German rockers Sintage lets loose a lethal debut full-length album that channels the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal alongside bands such as fellow countrymen Running Wild. Rollicking and galloping anthems abound with this affair that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-sintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99926","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=99926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99928,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99926\/revisions\/99928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}