The Reaper - Grave Digger

'The Reaper' is Grave Digger's first album of the 1990s, and their triumphant return after admittedly selling out at the end of the previous decade with a brief stint as glam metal band Digger. Returning to their old moniker and speed metal style, in the vein of Running Wild and Accept, Grave Digger reprise their excellent, fast, shrieking heavy metal sound and even apologise to their fans in the celebratory title track. A return to form was a step in the right direction, but it does bring the problem of originality, which this album doesn't concern itself with to any extent. The sound is almost entirely based in Judas Priest of the early 1980s with more than ...  Read the complete review