Angel Sword - 'Vigilantes' (official audio)

Some call us evil bandits
‘cause we scan the streets tonight
Some call us vigilantes
‘cause we plan to make things right

Some may not wish to trust us
But the people have to know
To form this fist of justice
Each finger has a role

Who could have seen us coming
Through the endless night
Who could have known
That we'd possess the right
Yes the right

Fall like the rain
These sleazy streets are our domain
The righteous remain
But the trash belongs to metal vigilantes

The time has come for action
A judgement day will come
They’re hiding in their bastions
But the countdown has begun

Cut them out like weeds
If we cut them will they bleed?
Hear the echoes and the screams
Of the dying on the streets

They should have seen us coming
Through the endless night
They should have known
That we possess the right
Yes the right

Fall like the rain
The righteous remain
We promise the brave
The strong will be saved

Fall like the rain
The righteous remain
But at night the scum of the streets
Is at the mercy of the metal vigilantes

Δισκογραφική επιστροφή μετά από πέντε έτη και full length album νούμερο τρία για τους Angel Sword. "World Fighter" και θα κυκλοφορήσει στα μέσα του πρώτου καλοκαιρινού μήνα σε cd, βινύλιο και ψηφιακή μορφή μέσω της Dying Victims Productions και σε κασέτα από την Tapes of Terror Records. Οι Angel Sword μας έρχονται από την Φινλανδία. Δημιουργήθηκαν το 2010 και μας συστήνονται κάπως έτσι:

«Angel Sword worships the heavy metal gods of old, fallen into slumber decades ago and now angered by the polished plastic sound of modern metal. Prepare for a skull-crushing, vomit-inducing dose of real heavy metal!»

Έχουν κυκλοφορήσει δύο "ολοκληρωμένους" δίσκους ("Rebels Beyond the Pale" 2016, "Neon City" 2019), ένα demo, δύο EPs ("Ripping the Heavens" 2013, "The Midwinter Tapes" 2015) και ένα single ("Kallio Rock City" 2017)...

Δελτίο τύπου: «Dying Victims Productions is proud to present Angel Sword’s highly anticipated third album, World Fighter, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Hailing from Helsinki, Finland’s Angel Sword formed in 2010 with the intent to play old-school heavy metal.

And they get right to it with the too-perfectly titled demo Where We Are Going You Cannot Come demo later that year. Two EPs followed – 2013’s Ripping the Heavens and 2015’s The Midwinter Tapes - before their decisive debut album, Rebels Beyond the Pale, in 2016.

Another perfectly titled recording, Angel Sword’s first full-length was a fresh breath of old air, finding some elusive (and deceptively laidback yet rough) landscape of late ‘70s heavy metal, subsequent NWOBHM, and adjacent early US power metal.

Three years later followed the tighter and slightly more aggressive Neon City, expanding the band’s still-‘80s-bound gaze through a charmingly rustic retro-futurist lens. During all these years, Angel Sword have opened for Manilla Road, Blitzkrieg and Satan as well as playing such festivals as Metal Assault, Metalheadz Open Air, Storm Crusher warmup, and Up the Hammers warm-up.

Oh, and along the way, Darkthrone’s Fenriz thoroughly championed the band! "Our goal in this age of soulless, overproduced modern metal is to re-summon the metal gods of old with a skull-crushing, vomit-inducing dose of rough-edged heavy metal,” state Angel Sword, and that’s exactly what they do with World Fighter!

It’d be easy to simply say that their third album is a fairly even balance between the first two albums and…well, it’s kinda the truth! Sporting yet another amazing cover artwork, World Fighter brings the bathos and bravado right from its opening seconds, Angel Sword sounding like true world fighters as they chug forward to their battle hymns.

From there, nuance and shade - or, rather, just MOOD - become the watchwords as the quartet keep the thrust mostly mid-tempo, allowing their dark melodicism to fully take flight.

And, while Angel Sword never seem like they’re in any hurry, the eight tracks of World Fighter are actually the band’s most uptempo work yet; it’s just that they’re exuding such poise now that that pace feels deceptively relaxed, that big & brassy pulse coasting with coolness and heaviness.

Put another way, the album’s almost-uniformly balls-to-the-wall gait summons an effervescent energy - and maximum attitude. Truly, Angel Sword are nothing if not engaging in their rough ‘n’ tumble, raise-the-swords charisma, becoming those very blue-collar ruffians you can really believe in.

Coupled with a smoother, somewhat-shimmering style of production that still allows their intrinsic grit to “shine” through, World Fighter goes against all odds to become Angel Sword’s crowning achievement to date. All weekend warriors, enter their Church of Rock post-haste!»

Band: Angel Sword
Country of origin: Finland
Location: Helsinki
Formed in: 2010
Genre: Heavy Metal
Lyrical themes: Life, Liberty, Metal
Years active: 2010-present

Audio: "Vigilantes"
Music and Lyrics by: Jerry Razors
Album: "World Fighter"
Type: Full length

Release date: June 14th, 2024
Label: Dying Victims Productions
Format: CD, 12" vinyl, Digital

Release date: June 14th, 2024
Label: Tapes of Terror Records
Format: Cassette
Limitation: 100 copies

Track listing:
1. Vigilantes
2. Weekend Warrior
3. Dangerous Games
4. Church of Rock
5. Powerglove
6. Against All Odds
7. Afterburn
8. World Fighter

Band members:
Jerry Razors - vocals, guitar
Lightning Mike - lead guitar
Eviltaker - bass
Alexander Depraved - drums