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Halford
- " Crucible " |
¿How can I explain this
album without saying if it's good or bad? When you read the name Rob Halford, you know
whatever the music sounds like, the voice is gonna be great. In "Crucible", an
album wich could pass unawared if it wasn't for the singer.This second Halford album isn't
(althought many would prefered so) a new "Resurrection". The "help" of
Roy Z in the composition department has been determinant for the "new
style" of this metal giant. Not many guitar solos, numetal riffs and that
"modern" sound already showed in Bruce Dickinson albums where he plays make this
cd a "halford fan only" album or a wider audiences release. Maybe in some tracks
like "One Will" or "Betrayal" or inclusive "Handing out
Bullets" is where we can sense the heavy metal power of Halford, but if this are the
best songs,there's also the bad ones like "Hearts of Darkness" or
"Heretic" when you don't know if you're listening to a metal album or to MTV's
latest rock star, this gets even more noticeable in "Golgotha", where he
sings great but the music certainly sucks. Finally this album isn't a complete waste, I
expected a more classic sound and I found a Halford with Fubu clothes, hockey jersey and
baseball cap! It would be impossible not to find a good song in a halford album, the man
who defined the term heavy metal, but here the good songs are just a 20% of the complete
record, which for Rob halford isn't enough. Let's wait for their third album. I hope they
can surprise us like Judas Priest did after their "Turbo" album, and it's
beacuse we all know that Halford can produce another "Painkiller" easily. |
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