Mblaaghgahaghablbhalhaglhalbhalhghgh!!


Iron Savior have just released a new album! (As Iron Savior, I mean, not the almost identical Savage Circus). Piet had said that they were going to finally come back in 2011, but with the year nearly over I thought that they were gone for good - I searched again to see if anyone was releasing anything new and found more than I realized I was hoping for.

I'm not sure why I'm so uncharacteristically bubblingly ecstatic about this, other than saying that they hold a huge amount of nostalgia for me. I'm instantly taken back to my first year of university - though I can't really say that as a positive thing either seeing as my first year of university was terrible. I think that it just reminds me of that first moment when I found a band producing music that I liked that wasn't long dead.

After five years away, it feels like they're somehow starting something new - from the almost Dream Theater-like abstract album cover to the way that the new video sounds like an updated title song for them - I haven't look into what the storyline is yet, but my thought that he was deliberately writing it out at the end of the last album was wrong. The sound is somewhat slower and heavier than their speed-metal-like early releases and sounds somewhat like Hammerfall, but the harmonic choruses are back along with the unmistakable hugeness of the sound - I absolutely love that pre-chorus, especially with the choir added at the end. What an incredibly welcome return!

Oh, and it's Thanksgiving or something, too.