Dragonheart [IMPORT]

Messiah's Kiss

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 13, 2007)
• Original Release Date: February 26, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Steamhammer / SPV
• ASIN: B000MEYHTY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #208,365 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

As one of the harder working bands on the German Power Metal frontier, Messiah's Kiss have been able to rise to the top with a traditional heavy metal sound with a very contemporary edge. Stateside heavy metal enthusiasts are now beginning to catch the fever for well-played balls-out metal with melody. Dragonheart, the new album, presents 11 new tracks on the interface of double bass rhythms, straightforward guitar riffs and impressive vocals. "We grew up with the great metal bands of the Eighties, particularly Judas Priest and Iron Maiden from England and Accept from Germany," drummer Eckhard Ostra explains. "Our music doesn't even begin to pick up on short-lived trends or colourless fads, we do what we love and what we definitely do best: classic heavy metal."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars '80s Metal from the twenty-first century!, August 2, 2008

By	alpha128 (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews

Messiah's Kiss is one of several German bands (others include Primal Fear and Iron Savior) who are keeping the classic heavy metal sound of the 1980s alive and well in the new millennium.

Messiah's Kiss makes no attempt to hide their influences. Over the course of the album, vocalist Mike Tirelli alternatively sounds like Ronnie James Dio, David Coverdale, and even Rob Halford.

The Dio influence can be heard most strongly on "Where the Falcons Cry". Meanwhile, "Dragonheart" and "Steelrider" would be right at home on Judas Priest's Painkiller album.

This CD has a good variety of material that keeps it interesting. Speed metal tracks like "The Ancient Cries" and "Nocturnal" are interspersed with slower tracks like "Thunder of the Night" and "Northern Nights".

Highlights include the aforementioned "Where the Falcons Cry" (Dio worship at its finest), "Babylon" (excellent speed metal that brought this album to my attention), and "City of Angels" (emotional pseudo-ballad).

Messiah's Kiss aren't going to win any originality awards, but who cares? I'm reminded of a quote by Kiss' Gene Simmons who said, "the most original musicians can be found in the jazz clubs, and they're all starving to death."

The bottom line is "Dragonheart" delivers the kind of music I like: fast, heavy, aggressive yet still melodic, with a singer who can actually SING. If you're a fan of Dio and Judas Priest, or sick of the monotony and need for subtitles in so much of today's metal, I recommend you check out this album.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good listen., July 22, 2007

By	W. Clarke (Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you like your metal in the power or NWOBHM styles then this album is a great buy. I have probably listened to it more than any other album I have purchased in that last 6 months.