Shadow Warrior
Cyberblade
Ossuary Records
Shadow Warrior is a female fronted heavy metal band from Lublin/Poland.
A drummer for the band must have had the most basic drum set to play at recording studio, because his drumming is very garage-style and simplistic on this album, which brings some nostalgia of 80`s heavy metal (Accept, Iron Maiden). Band usually plays fast and dynamic songs, based on melodic guitar shreds, decent solos, and catchy-some but not overwhelming guitar chords. Driving force in music are melodic vocal lines and heavy metal choruses. They give you plenty of those moments and words that can be sung out loud with the band or your friends, which quickly connect you to their music so you can share this rocking heavy metal energy of their songs on yourself or on other people. For instance, tracks like Demolition Hammer, Cyberblade, Headless Riders are very good to sing refrains along, when playing these songs. There is a heavier and darker track Demon’s Sword so you know that the album is not always fast. In I Am the Thunder, there are super catchy riffs played on speed and fantastic bass play! - sound like they have this real joy of playing heavy metal music right there, in their veins. Squadron Of Steel has some of those similar to Judas Priest riffs and vibe from their 80`s greatest albums, where you can feel that your heart beats a little faster when you hear it, which is a nice sensation that Squadron Of Steel has in.
Just as everything on the album - production of songs and music have sort of modest quality- from sound engineering to performance of songs - meaning; they play and sound like a band you could have heard about in your neighbourhood, and people have started to ask questions about them...
I must write that I have authentic fun while listening to their traditional, organically sounding heavy metal tunes that Shadow Warrior prepared for Cyberblade.
A drummer for the band must have had the most basic drum set to play at recording studio, because his drumming is very garage-style and simplistic on this album, which brings some nostalgia of 80`s heavy metal (Accept, Iron Maiden). Band usually plays fast and dynamic songs, based on melodic guitar shreds, decent solos, and catchy-some but not overwhelming guitar chords. Driving force in music are melodic vocal lines and heavy metal choruses. They give you plenty of those moments and words that can be sung out loud with the band or your friends, which quickly connect you to their music so you can share this rocking heavy metal energy of their songs on yourself or on other people. For instance, tracks like Demolition Hammer, Cyberblade, Headless Riders are very good to sing refrains along, when playing these songs. There is a heavier and darker track Demon’s Sword so you know that the album is not always fast. In I Am the Thunder, there are super catchy riffs played on speed and fantastic bass play! - sound like they have this real joy of playing heavy metal music right there, in their veins. Squadron Of Steel has some of those similar to Judas Priest riffs and vibe from their 80`s greatest albums, where you can feel that your heart beats a little faster when you hear it, which is a nice sensation that Squadron Of Steel has in.
Just as everything on the album - production of songs and music have sort of modest quality- from sound engineering to performance of songs - meaning; they play and sound like a band you could have heard about in your neighbourhood, and people have started to ask questions about them...
I must write that I have authentic fun while listening to their traditional, organically sounding heavy metal tunes that Shadow Warrior prepared for Cyberblade.
Tracklist:
1. Cyberblade
2. Demolition Hammer
3. Iron Hawk Rising
4. I Am the Thunder
5. Squadrons of Steel
6. Demon’s Sword
7. Headless Riders
8. Flight of the Steel Samurai
1. Cyberblade
2. Demolition Hammer
3. Iron Hawk Rising
4. I Am the Thunder
5. Squadrons of Steel
6. Demon’s Sword
7. Headless Riders
8. Flight of the Steel Samurai
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 21.11.2020
Added: 21.11.2020