Ross The Boss - New Metal Leader
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A quick lookup on Google throws up at least five 'Ross The Boss’ ranging from a middleweight boxer through a hip hop DJ and a painter but the original was playing heavy metal and hard punk thirty years ago.
After bass duties with The Dictators he helped put Manowar together and grew from a Sabbath support act to one of the leading lights of the early US Metal scene.
So he’s got the history but has he still got the chops?
From the cover, with an Eagle flying in to a battleground with an axe in its talons, to the song titles – 'Blood Of Knives’, 'Death & Glory’, 'May The Gods Be With You’ – this is either a corny pastiche of heavy metal by an old hack living on past glories or it’s a stunning album by one of the fathers of metal with all the power and passion he ever had laid out before the listener and waiting for the new acolytes to take up his cause.
Actually, no question. From the opening guitar riff of 'I.L.H’ and the pounding drums of Matthias Mayer on 'Blood Of Knives’ this is heart lifting metal that sets the pulses racing and almost had me idiot dancing in front of my PC. This is loaded with great melodies and rhythms and some of the most uplifting rock I’ve heard this year.
The guitar work throughout is classic metal riffery and chimes and Patrick Fuchs vocals in the Bruce Dickinson or Rob Halford vein are perfect.
This is the music that gave metal its name originally – sharp as a blade and hard as sheet steel.
It is odd that in the same week that G 'n’ R finally released the heartless and out of date toot of 'Chinese Democracy’ I was finally able to get my hands on an album that harks back a lot further but has a freshness and power that Axl Rose can only dream of.
There are touches of Iron Maiden in the sound as well as Blue Oyster Cult and even Priest but the real heart of this is the best album that Manowar never made.
After bass duties with The Dictators he helped put Manowar together and grew from a Sabbath support act to one of the leading lights of the early US Metal scene.
So he’s got the history but has he still got the chops?
From the cover, with an Eagle flying in to a battleground with an axe in its talons, to the song titles – 'Blood Of Knives’, 'Death & Glory’, 'May The Gods Be With You’ – this is either a corny pastiche of heavy metal by an old hack living on past glories or it’s a stunning album by one of the fathers of metal with all the power and passion he ever had laid out before the listener and waiting for the new acolytes to take up his cause.
Actually, no question. From the opening guitar riff of 'I.L.H’ and the pounding drums of Matthias Mayer on 'Blood Of Knives’ this is heart lifting metal that sets the pulses racing and almost had me idiot dancing in front of my PC. This is loaded with great melodies and rhythms and some of the most uplifting rock I’ve heard this year.
The guitar work throughout is classic metal riffery and chimes and Patrick Fuchs vocals in the Bruce Dickinson or Rob Halford vein are perfect.
This is the music that gave metal its name originally – sharp as a blade and hard as sheet steel.
It is odd that in the same week that G 'n’ R finally released the heartless and out of date toot of 'Chinese Democracy’ I was finally able to get my hands on an album that harks back a lot further but has a freshness and power that Axl Rose can only dream of.
There are touches of Iron Maiden in the sound as well as Blue Oyster Cult and even Priest but the real heart of this is the best album that Manowar never made.
