Atomic Arena - Barren Cross

Barren Cross were one of the more prominent Christian metal bands of the eighties, in a futile attempt to provide a strong competing force to the ever more nefarious black metal bands emerging from Scandinavia at the time, as well as something for right-wing Christian parents to jump at the opportunity to buy in the hope that their impressionable children's souls will be spared. Especially if they were considering something dastardly like abortion, dealt with here in track two before the album returns to the band's usual praise of the Almighty. It would be unfair to jump on the Christian theme if the band wasn't so clearly all about flouting it, and to be ...  Read the complete review