Hollowed Be Thy Name

Mob Rules | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Steamhammer / SPV
• ASIN: B00006I62N
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,531 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2002 album features guest musicians Peavy Wagner (Rage) and Roland Grapow (Ex-Helloween). Steamhammer.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mob Rules the Melodic Metal World, November 14, 2003

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Mr D. "Artist/Designer/Kibitzer" (Cave Creek, Az United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hollowed Be Thy Name (Audio CD)

Mob Rules is a German sextet consisting of Klaus Dirks on vocals, Matthias Mineur and Oliver Fuhlhage on guitar, Sascha Onnen on keyboards, Arved Mannott and Thorsten Plorin on bass. I suppose if I was going to compare Mob Rules to any band it would have to be Styx. Dirk's voice is like a cross between Dennis De Young and Tommy Shaw and the whole band harmonizes very nicely, thank you. Additionally the music has that Styx feel and let me tell you the music is wonderful.

I had heard of Mob Rules almost a year ago. I had heard they were a Power Metal and that they were really good. Let me tell you, there are a lot of Power metal bands that are really, really good, so I filed Mob Rules away in my memory bank for future recall.

Well, about three months ago I decided to pop for their debut album, Savage Land. First of all it's not Power Metal, in fact it's barely heavy metal, in fact it's really Melodic Metal with so many hooks that you could hang a curtain. I'll tell you what, I popped my arm out of the socket patting myself on the back. I sometimes buy albums strictly on a hunch, having never heard them and I'll admit I've gotten some stinkers but generally my hunches pay off and when they do it's like hitting a big pot in poker. I've probably written a forth of my reviews on such albums.

Ok, let's move on, Savage Land was a winner so it stood to reason that their latest album, Hallowed be thy Name would be a winner too and it is, in spades, a royal flush!

Ok, so it's not you're kind of music but how do you know? If you've ever liked anything by Styx, Triumph, Asia, Megadeth, Shadow Gallery or even Bon Jovi, this could be for you. I am reminded of the saying, You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Well Mob Rules is the water and YOU are the horse. If you don't drink, you're only part horse.

Similar Bands:

Sonata Arctica, Edguy, Shadow Gallery, Styx, Kamelot

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Mob-THEY RULE...., November 26, 2002

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ZOMBIE 1 (Davenport, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hollowed Be Thy Name (Audio CD)

I just purchased the brand new MOB RULES Disc called Hallowed Be Thy Name.If you like melodic metal,this is a treat.These guys are good.There is alot of bands out there that you never here about,but thanks to the internet,we can find good bands like this.This is definatly a band to hear.If only we could see them live.This is good, BUY IT.................

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent melodic power metal album, October 8, 2010

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Justin Gaines (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hollowed Be Thy Name (Audio CD)

2002's Hollowed Be Thy Name is the third release from German melodic power metal band Mob Rules. This is one of those bands I overlooked early in their career - the cover art and LMP label made me peg them as Rhapsody wanna-bes - and regretted once I finally heard their music. It turns out Mob Rules is one of the best melodic power metal bands around.

Hollowed Be Thy Name is the album where Mob Rules made the transition from a good power metal band to something a step above the rest of the pack. Savage Land and Temple of Two Suns are perfectly solid power metal albums, but Hollowed Be Thy Name shows a more mature, more powerful band with an incredible flair for writing amazing melodic metal. It just seems like the band discovered its own identity with this release. The songs are smarter, the musicianship is tighter, the vocals are more dramatic, and it's just more melodic overall. It's somewhere between Freedom Call's sing-song melodic metal and Primal Fear's Judas Priest-style power metal, and not once does Mob Rules come across as just another Helloween knockoff.

It's not the masterpiece that Among the Gods is, but Hollowed Be Thy Name is still an incredible melodic power metal album, and one that all Mob Rules fans should own. It should appeal equally to fans of power metal bands like Gamma Ray and Rhapsody as well as melodic metal bands like Circle II Circle and Last Tribe. It's just a great example of melodic power metal done right.