Promise And Terror
Heavy Metal
2010
| The Band | The Music | The Rest |
| Blaze Bayley : Vocals | 01. Watching the Night Sky (03:36) | Blaze Bayley Recordings / BBRCD003 |
| Jay Walsh : Rhythm Guitarist | 02. Madness and Sorrow (03:09) | Runnin' time 55:40 |
| Nico Bermudez : Lead Guitar | 03. 1633 (06:03) | |
| David Bermudez : Bass | 04. God of Speed (05:48) | EAC v0.99pb5 Secure, No C2, Disable Cache |
| Lawrence Paterson : Drums | 05. City of Bones (06:25) | Ape Monkey's Audio 4.06 |
| 06. Faceless (03:46) | Winrar 3.89 + 5% Recovery | |
| Official | 07. Time to Dare (05:41) | |
| MySpace | 08. Surrounded By Sadness (03:59) | No Scan | WikipediA | 09. The Trace of Things That Have No Words (05:47) |
| 10. Letting Go of the World (06:23) | Size : 419MB splitted into 3 files. | |
| 11. Comfortable In Darkness (04:59) |
Chronique
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Après avoir été le chanteur de Wolfsbane, entre 1984 et 1993, Blaze Bayley a été recruté par Iron Maiden pour remplacer Bruce Dickinson.
C'est ainsi que sont "nés" The X-Factor (1995) et Virtual XI (1998), deux albums contenant à mes yeux pas mal d'excellents titres mais qui n'ont pas eu le succès escompté. Le départ de Bruce et la voix de Blaze, aux intonations plutôt sombres, n'étant pas vraiment acceptés du côté des fans du groupe.
Bruce de retour dans Iron Maiden en 1999, Blaze fonde alors son propre groupe, Blaze, et sort son premier album en 2000, Silicon Messiah, que j'avais trouvé très bon !
Sous ce nom, trois albums studio, à savoir Silicon Messiah, Tenth Dimension (2002), Blood And Belief (2004), et un live (As Live As It Gets, en 2003) sortiront, puis un album studio (The Man Who Would Not Die, en 2008) et un live (The Night Who Would Not Die, en 2009) sous celui de Blaze Bayley, avant l'arrivée du petit nouveau, Promise And Terror !
L'album s'ouvre de la meilleure des manières avec Watching the Night Sky, titre puissant, rapide et accrocheur, qui donne le ton, et devrait être très apprécié en concert, tout comme les directs et imparables Madness and Sorrow et Faceless.
Mais Promise And Terror ne nous offre pas que des titres speed ! Nous évoluons constamment dans un univers plutôt sombre, mélodique et très heavy, les rythmiques étant souvent particulièrement lourdes et puissantes. Nous trouvons des compositions variées en atmosphères et tempos, épiques et efficaces, comme les passionnants 1633, City of Bones ou Time to Dare, qui en sont les parfaites illustrations !
Promise And Terror nous propose également deux excellentes power ballads, Surrounded by Sadness et le remarquable Comfortable in Darkness, qui vient magnifiquement clore l'album.
J'ai écouté Promise And Terror trois fois avant de finir cette chronique et je reconnais avoir moyennement accroché lors de la première écoute.
La seconde a été bien plus convaincante et la troisième a conforté mon point de vue qui est que, même s'il ne faut pas s'attendre à beaucoup d'originalité, nous sommes en présence d'un album réussi, doté de compositions solides.
L'interprétation est irréprochable, il y a de bons solos, la voix de Blaze, efficace, est en parfaite adéquation avec le style pratiqué et la production est de qualité.
En bref, je vous recommande de découvrir Promise And Terror !
Review
Promise and Terror is the 2nd full-length offering from the former Wolfsbane/Iron Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley, and follows in the footsteps of its predecessor The Man Who Would Not Die, as well as the albums he released with the lineup known simply as Blaze. It's pure power and speed metal with a dash of the classic, frenetic NWOBHM sound of his first major label band. The man's vocals remain in the same, charismatic range, but he's always been good at what he does (with the exception of the ill-fated Virtual XI), so it's clear pretty quickly that this album will wither or thrive based solely on the rhythmic thrust of the songs.
And, to be fair, most of the tracks here offer you the same, busy approach to power metal that you'd hear from a lot of the band's European contemporaries. They are more complex than a HammerFall, but riff after riff, the writing seems to only border on greatness, never picking its bulk up to cast itself over the wall. "Watching the Night Sky" is a good old frenzied anthem that zips past like a UFO of plucky, Maiden-esque rhythms and early Helloween fervor, but once the dust clears, I just didn't remember a damn thing about it, except perhaps the elevation of the vocals in the latter half of the predictable chorus. "Madness and Sorrow" is a blazer of Iron Savior-like proportions, yet for the bustle and squeal of the picking and the somber shuffle of the verse riffs, it feels like nothing more than three minutes of momentum with a half-decent lead. "1633" is a little more somber and effective, with speed metal guitars thrusting through a middle paced, and Bayley's words of woe striking closer to the heart.
There are a few more exciting tracks deeper into the album, like the flashy "City of Bones" which has rhythms reminiscent of Arch Enemy's Burning Bridges era, or "Faceless" which is a mix of Blaze's infamous barroom brawl lyrics from his old days and a ringing melodic mesh of riffs, but even these aren't exactly destined for a jukebox anytime soon. "Time to Dare" has a strong, soaring melodic intro, but dulls itself down through the verses, and perhaps the best of the material here is confined late in the track list, like "The Trace of Things That Have No Words" or the plodding, immediate tension of "Letting Go of the World". The acoustic ballad "Surrounded by Sadness" is actually pretty hooky, with a nice melancholy to the burning and simple lead guitars.
Promise and Terror is yet another solid effort from Blaze Bayley, but like so many of his albums post-Wolfsbane, it's just not enough that you're going to continue to come back to it. There is not a single song here that lacks riffs or competence, but none of them really blow you away. I can hardly consider it tragic: Blaze is a good singer, he always has been, and his solo bands generally deliver...there is just an elusive, intangible 'something' missing that would hurl them over the barrier. And if someone deserves some hard earned success, it is probably this man.
Highlights: The Trace of Things That Have No Words, City of Bones, Letting Go of the World
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