Doom-laden classic metal from the '80s. These Swedes, alongside Heavy Load, provide fire, imagery and startling heavy rock with an ease that should suggest vast fame and fortune. Of course, Overdrive weren't all that popular but this stomping album once again proves that all the best bands are forgotten. Solid heavy metal conjuring images of great dungeons, damp castles and darkened skies, punctured by the streaks of guitar lightning and drumming thunder. And of course, the enigmatic and suspenseful 'Dream Away', touted as a forgotten classic in metal circles. An acoustic intro that soars like some iron albatross into the zenith before galloping like some metal horse. A message for youthful rebellion if ever there was one, casting images of pumping fists and warrior yells. 'Mission Of Destruction' rumbles, 'Black Revenge' chugs...it's an album to discover at any point of your life, and will bring out the hardest metaller in your soul.
8/10
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