Blade of Triumph (Blade Of Triumph - Iron Fire)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Blade Of Triumph - Iron Fire
Date:	29/07/08 (24 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some fun heavy metal.

Disadvantages: Weak vocals and dull instruments.

Denmark's Iron Fire are yet another modern band repeating a tired heavy metal formula and ruining any powerful impact it may have had through the prevalence of overly melodic vocals. Martin Steene isn't a bad singer, but his soft style doesn't suit the tales of conquest and glory, and robs what little power the generic instrumentation may have had.

With that major gripe out of the way, this is an average album of heavy/power metal, but nothing that genre fans won't have heard before. Some of the choruses and guitar riffs are catchy, but most are forgettable or otherwise unimpressive, 'Dawn of Victory' taking the biscuit for the least exciting metal rendition of the theme from Holst's 'Mars, the Bringer of War' that I've ever heard (and I've heard a lot - bands plunder that riff all the time). The overly melodic songs all too frequently descend into unnecessary softer sections, and to make matters worse, 'Legend of the Magic Sword' is simply a really, really bad ballad, in the tradition of most metal ballads.

1. Dragonheart
2. Bloodbath of Knights
3. Dawn of Victory
4. Lord of the Labyrinth
5. Bridges Will Burn
6. Follow the Sign
7. Steel Invaders
8. Jackal's Eye
9. Legend of the Magic Sword
10. Gladiator's Path
11. Blade of Triumph

Summary: Iron Fire's fourth album (2007).