Okay kids, here's another mega-rare, newly discovered batch of recordings from a "Sabbath" styled UK band from the middle seventies. We all know how this usually ends up, and we've all been burned by Iron Maiden, Bram Stoker, Zior, Monument and other merely foggy, druggy bands. So how do Warlord pan out?
"Jasmin Queen" is decent enough thud rock, but the vocals are terrible and this, sadly, does not change throughout. "Explorer" has a nice minor-chord riff, but is otherwise forgettable, and "Face Of The Sun" could be boogie rock if the band's drummer has more groove...kind of sounds like very old Rush. "Warlord" contains actual NWOBHM approved riffs, but is also pretty unmemorable. I have to give props here though, as apart from it's silly acoustic sections, it is unabashedly metal. "Ladykiller" is dreadful, "To The Devil A Daughter" only highlights how bad this band's singer was, and both contain the thinnest, reediest keyboard sounds I've ever heard.
"Devil Drink"....huh? Is this title for real? And the song is amazingly bad...sounds like background music for a Z grade sixties occult horror film. Simply terrible...almost sounds like it was intended to be a joke. From this point on the recording quality is so poor as to be nearly unlistenable, but the band do torture us again a with a horrendous ballad called "The Ring."
Give these dudes credit on one point, they made no effort to be dishonest and conceal their weaknesses. They are...PLOP...right out there for all to see. But overall this is truly awful, and I'm so sick of labels jerking me off by promising me deathly heaviness and delivering piss poor leftovers like this. Let's all say it together, shall we...and remember it this time...RARE DOES NOT EQUAL GOOD! OBSCURE DOES NOT GUARANTEE QUALITY!! ONE REAL RIFF ON A CD DOES NOT MAKE A BAND "PROTO-METAL"!! Got it?! Good! I don't want to have to have to discuss this again.
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