Revelation - Armored Saint

'Revelation' was the first album recorded by the reformed Armored Saint almost a decade after their previous effort 'Symbol of Salvation,' and there's very little sign that they've been away. John Bush's vocals are more similar to his work in main project Anthrax than the early Saint albums, and like Jeff Duncan and Phil Sandoval's guitars, avoid the high range and conform more to the low-end of groove metal, marking this out as a distinctly post-1991 album unable to recapture the innocence of the daft but fun eighties. Like all Armored Saint albums this is unremarkable but entertaining heavy metal, less classic than their early work in the same way 90s Judas Priest or ...  Read the complete review