No World Order (No World Order - Gamma Ray)

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Product:	No World Order - Gamma Ray
Date:	10/07/08 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: Unadulterated heavy metal for genre fans.

Disadvantages: Mix Judas Priest with Helloween, and dilute.

'No World Order' is comparable to Judas Priest's 'Painkiller,' in that it isn't necessarily the peak of Gamma Ray's career, but it certainly packs a heavy metal wallop. The comparison is enhanced further by the typical theft of much of that other album's sound, particularly in songs like 'The Heart of the Unicorn.' No one ever said Gamma Ray were the most original metal band around, but their perseverance with a rather dated style pays off in this solid album of heavy metal enjoyment.

'Induction' is quite a bad starting point as it promises a sense of the epic that would fail to materialise in the relatively simplistic music to follow, but this is soon forgotten as the heavy and seriously loud 'Dethrone Tyranny' explodes out of the speakers. None of the songs here are modern metal classics by any stretch of the imagination, but a few are notable and worthy of repeated listens, the title track itself standing out by leading the way with a guitar riff that could easily have come from a Judas Priest album of the seventies.

1. Induction
2. Dethrone Tyranny
3. The Heart of the Unicorn
4. Heaven or Hell
5. New World Order
6. Damn the Machine
7. Solid
8. Fire Below
9. Follow Me
10. Eagle
11. Lake of Tears

Summary: Gamma Ray's seventh album (2001).