Album title: Healed by Metal
Artist: Grave Digger
Genre: Heavy Metal/ Power Metal
Nationality: German
Release date: January 13
Position in Discography: Eighteenth
Fear Factor: Low
Familiar with this artist? I've heard the odd album
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Quite
Check out more from this artist? Yes
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Always
You have to laugh at the – intentional or otherwise – boneheadedness of not only the title of the album, but other tracks such as “Ten Commandments of Metal” (Number One:
Thou Shalt Not Wash?)
but there's no faulting the musicianship here. The title, and opener, comes across as a song that Manowar might have laughingly rejected, and it's numbskull to the max but good fun. What isn't good fun is that a) it's not on Spotify and b) though someone has put it up on YT as being “full album” it's ****ing far from it, with about half the tracks left off. So, for thirty-six cents I'll buy and download it (I have all their other albums anyway) so I can listen to and review it properly. Yeah, even looking for the individual tracks on YT failed me the very first one I typed in. ****s. Anyway, on we go.
There are some pretty good anthems here - “Call For War”, “Ten Commandments of Metal” (even if it is
), “Hallelujah” (more laughter: “For your sins you will be crucified” - Oh dear!) and then some good solid metal rockers too. Sure, you can headbang to this but you do kind of need to leave your brain behind if you want to sing the lyrics. I mean, does the singer really have to actually
laugh during “Laughing with the dead”? Overall, a pretty good album though. Powerful stuff.
Look, Grave Digger aren't exactly breaking any new ground (sorry) but they're not giving up the ghost either (sorry). With eighteen albums now under their belt and over three decades in the business, there's life in the old dog yet. Sorry. I'll stop now.
Expectation Index: 0