Angel Sword
World Fighter
Our goal in this age of soulless, overproduced modern metal is to re-summon the metal gods of old with a skull-crushing, vomit-inducing dose of rough-edged heavy metal," state ANGEL SWORD, and thats exactly what they do with World Fighter! Itd be easy to simply say that their third album is a fairly even balance between the first two albums and.well, its kinda the truth! Sporting yet another amazing cover artwork, World Fighter brings the bathos and bravado right from its opening seconds, ANGEL SWORD sounding like true world fighters as they chug forward to their battle hymns. From there, nuance and shade - or, rather, just MOOD - become the watchwords as the quartet keep the thrust mostly mid-tempo, allowing their dark melodicism to fully take flight. And, while ANGEL SWORD never seem like theyre in any hurry, the eight tracks of World Fighter are actually the bands most uptempo work yet; its just that theyre exuding such poise now that that pace feels deceptively relaxed, that big & brassy pulse coasting with coolness and heaviness