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4 out of 10
This album is a time-machine and a food-mixer in one shiny metal package. The listener is transported to a time when men were men, women were women, and Kerrang! Journalists used to kidnap members of 'indie' bands and nail them up inside Lemmy's Marshall stack. The bread-and-butter sounds of those days - Van Halen (Fright Train), Iron Maiden (Black Society), Manowar (Medal of Honour), Diamond Head (virtually the whole album) et. al. - are all present and polished here, with a production so crisp and loud it is unfair to inflict the imperfections of the human ear upon it.
Let It Roll seems to hint at the band wanting to do something a bit different but the rest is, despite the promisingly nasty sleeve, identikit-metal. Fright Train begins with the sound of a train, Medal of Honour is suffused with military drums, that kind of thing. Arthemis' talent is undeniable and their admirably slow production rate (this album is their fifth in fifteen years) shows a firm QC department, however the effect is, sadly, rather underwhelming. Perhaps they need to ditch the food mixer for a home-surgery kit.
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Tracklist:
1. Fright Train
2. Angels in Black
3. Electri-Fire
4. Medal of Honour
5. Escape
6. Black Society
7. Mechanical Plague
8. Let It Roll
9. Zombie Eater
10. Mr. Evil
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