Sacred Ally - Reality Hammer - review
Sacred Ally - Reality Hammer - review
Tracklist
01. Math02. Kermit The Prog
03. Despair
04. Uzumaki
05. Valour And War
06. High Seas
07. Final Juggernaut
A review by
Doc G. August 19, 2011
So the riffs are fast and sweet, it must be thrash, right? Of course it's fucking thrash. They just needed to bring in the prog elements so they could cram in all these riffs, they wouldn't have all fit otherwise. Fortunately, they let the riffs smoothly fire into one another pretty seamlessly. Yes, the drastic tempo shifts are there, but something just feels natural about them. They drive from the previously mentioned thrash appeal into soaring leads that could easily find themselves at home in some good ol' fashioned power metal, and just when you're getting bored of those, they throw some Thin Lizzy worthy guitarmonies at you. The beautiful part is the riffs are always given enough time to marinate; too often bands overstretch the whole constant-shifting aspect, ripping you out of your groove when your just getting into a certain segment, Reality Hammer seems to always give the listener the appropriate amount of time to let the flavour of each riff soak in.
So this album is pretty top-notch, the only real issue is the bottom end...or lack there of. It comes through some times, when the riffs allow it, but occasionally it sounds wafer thin. The riffs feel heavy, but they don't sound heavy, if you know what I mean. The best example of this being the first segment of the closing track "Final Juggernaut". That riff is pretty damn crunchy, but it just sounds like all guitar, and no bass. This is something that is noticeable on close inspection, but not all that trifling in the grand scheme.
So you like riffs then? Quit fucking around, give Reality Hammer a spin. If you don't, you'll regret it a few years from now when they have their own chain of restaurants, complete with hidden potty-cams to boot.
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Sounds like a reccomendation.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Just listened to "Valour and War" on Spotify, very nice sh*t. Altough I fail to notice (in this one song) the proggy elements, it just sounds like very "loose" trash metal. It's like calling Metallica proggy because they have long songs that often change pace and "feeling". But then again, this only aplies to only one song, not the entire album *disclaimer*
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Posts: 240 Written by malaikat on 19.08.2011 at 20:27 Still, they have a song name called "Kermit the Prog". I'm not saying they are or aren't prog because I havent listened to them, but still I feel like the song names can say a lot. Even if in this case it is really cheesy. 
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Posts: 21306 Written by jayocal on 22.08.2011 at 23:46 Thanks for taking the time to drop by, hopefully you enjoy your stay. 
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I think a band with prog elements having a song simply entitled "Math" is much more funny than naming a song "Kermit the Prog". XD
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Thrash? "Despair" reminds me of so-called Extreme Power metal bands a lot, minus the overwheming keyboards. Seriously, am I the only one who hears some old CoB in there (with a Manowarlike cheesiness maybe...)?
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Posts: 4603 Written by MétalNoir on 31.08.2011 at 06:23 You're not, I can hear it too.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Posts: 847 Written by Milena on 07.11.2011 at 23:14 So I'm not hearing things? Great
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Posts: 4603 Written by Fat & Sassy! on 23.08.2011 at 10:37 When I get tired of 'New Kid' I'll change my title to Kermit the Prog.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Oh the riffs dude... THE RIFFS.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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