New Releases: August 20, 2021 - Warkings

WARKINGS BRING THEIR REVOLUTION

Warkings - Revolution


I really enjoyed Warkings' 2020 release Revenge. It had the right balance of old-school heavy metal, power metal, and sonically sounded modern. The album really entertained me and offered up plenty of earworms that made me keep going back to the album even after others panned it.

But at the time I thought, as cool as this album is, there is only so much you can do with this subject matter. I thought, hopefully, they take some time off, or put together some sort of concept album. But here we are a year later and they're back. Could be fueled by the pandemic, or maybe they had so much material, that they needed to release it.

Either way, Revolution feels like a continuation of Revenge. And not always in a good way. The band takes some chances here and there, but not enough from their formula. Sure the album doesn't flat out suck. But it just feels like a collection of lesser versions of the songs on Revenge that I really enjoyed.

So instead of being captivated by a riff, or a lyrical melody, it just feels like the same old same old throughout. Some songs feel like leftover tracks from Revenge. While others feel like they were done by any run-of-the-mill power metal band like HammerFall or Sabaton. If that's your thing, then maybe this is the album for you.


Here ar Warkings with the title track off of their latest album We Are The Fire.


https://youtu.be/VcDNUTG-3TQ


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