Album Review: "Built For War" by Hammercult

Built For War

By the Power of Grayskull!

Sometimes we just more power metal in our empty lives. This is an oversimplification and I will get to that later on...

Today I'm going to review the latest album by Israeli thrashers Hammercult.

The band was founded all the way back in 2010 and have released an EP and two full length albums before Built For War, 2012's Anthems of the Damned and Steelcrusher from 2014. As this is only their second album, Hammercult fits right into the mantra of new music.

It would appear that there's a growing metal scene in Israel. I suppose that makes sense though. It would be quite easy to become metal over there. It's probably not worth pointing out that heavy metal godfather and inventor (yeah right) of the metal horns, Gene Simmons is originally from Israel.

Album Review: "ExtermiNation" by Raven

ExtermiNation

What I love about music is how it creates a snapshot in time for me.

When I saw that I had a Raven promo in my email for review, my mind immediately went to Metallica in 1982 or 1983...

Raven was the headlining act that Metallica opened for on their very first tour supporting Kill'Em All. I think a lot of people have forgotten that over the many years hence.

I have not always been the biggest fan of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), but that's just because honestly I wasn't t here. 

I certainly enjoyed Venom and Iron Maiden. It's hard to say if the latter still considers themselves members of NWOBHM though....

As for Raven, let's move onto their latter days and not their salad days...