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: S. D'Anna on vocals and keyboards M. Maak on guitar Snoppi on on drums V. Lcson on bass and additional vocals The tracks are : 1. In The Beginning (0:38) 2. Thunder Warriors (5:24) 3.The Call Of Call (0:38) 4. Named By The Devil (4:28) 5. The War Of Demons (0:39) 6. Lost Souls (5:52) 7. Zorian Karcoon (0:25) 8. Pain (9:43) 9. The Kidnapping (0:31) 10. The Liberation (8:56) 11. An Angry God (0:53) 12. You Prayed To God For Mercy (4:47) 13. Bad Times (0:22) 14. Thoughts (5:47) 15. The Weapons Of The Gods ( 1:36) 16. Heavy Metal Will Never Die (6:05) 17. The Second Oath (0:11) 18. Our Hate Will Burn You (6:40) 19. Army Of The Gods (0:53) 20. Dragon lOrds (7:01) 21. Battle Of Metal (2:52) Ballad Of Metal is a concept album with a twist. you see Wizard employ a narrator or storytellor inbetween the main tracks that lets you know where you stand in the story and just incase you do get lost long the way, the last line of spoken word from the storytellor is the title of the next track. Battle Of Metal is made up of twenty one tracks, 11 music tracks and 10 short passages of spoken word. it's a good idea and it works. The story is based around the classic Good versus Evil and like any good fantasy story or dungeons and dragons game, once you start playing you simply can't stop. And it's exactly the same with the album because it's a taditional metal album, it's dead easy to get into and with the added bonus of the narrator you just have to sit down and listen to the whole album. Wizard's metal has a distinctive European flavour to it, a bit like Helloween and Accept or even the Scorpions. The standard of musicianship is very good with Mr Maak delivering some fine bursts of fret power. Out of the tracks themselves, well, I'm a big softie at heart, so the two ballads 'Pain' and 'Liberation' do it for me. But for sheer headbanging frenzy check out the opener 'Thunder Warriors'. Wizard's 'Battle Of Metal' may have just begun, but on this showing, I'm pretty well sure they'll be around for a few years yet. Released by B.O. Records. Heubacherstrasse 23. 73 529 Bettringen. Germany. Fax : ++49 (0) 7171 98 93 18 Limb Music Products & Publishing Postfach 60 25 20 22235 Hamburg, Germany Fax: +49 - (0)40 - 53 10 90 50 Website : http://www.world-online.de/limb-music Email : limb-music@digital-design.de |