Public Glory Secret Agony [Limited Edition, Import]

White Skull | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 15, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition, Import
• Label: Massacre Poland
• ASIN: B001DMKREI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,594 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Burn Rome, Burn (Intro) [Nerone's Song (Intro)]

2. High Treason

3. The Roman Empire

4. Greedy Rome

5. In Caesar We Trust

6. Valley of the Sun

7. Anubis the Jackal

8. Mangler

9. Cleopathra

10. The Field of Peace

11. Time for Glory

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars UP the White Skull, July 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Public Glory Secret Agony (Audio CD)

Bands like Running Wild, Grave Digger and Manowar . White Skull are a female-fronted band from Italy following that cliché since 1991. They have three albums (WON'T BURN ALONE in 1995, EMBITTERED in 1997 and TALES FROM THE NORTH in 1999) and one EP (ASGARD from 1999) out so far. This is their fourth effort. It's a concept album about the istory of Rome (that becomes clear if you take a look at song titles like "Burn Rome Burn", "The Roman Empire" or "In Caesar We Trust"). Singer Federica De Boni has a typical metal voice similar to Doro Pesch or Lita Ford.But the songs often are too foreseeable, combining hyper-fast razor-sharp riffing and thunderous drumming in the vein of neo-classical bands like Stratovarius, Pegazus etc. with the hymnal choruses of the above mentioned true metal acts. The band already played on the "Harley Davidson festival". That says it all.If you are one of the guys standing in the first row at Running Wild concerts with your studded leather glove raised into the air, then you could like this band.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Italian answer to Blind Guardian, June 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Public Glory Secret Agony (Audio CD)

The album just explodes from start to finish. My favorites are"High Treason", "The Roman Empire" and "Greedy Rome" is power metal at it's very best. You know what's really good about this album? Well, yes, Frederica De Boni's vocals are fabulous. She sounds Metal and feminine at the same time. The musicianship is incredible,and while they play some dazzling riffs and solos, the music is never pompous or overblown. White Skull seems to have a real sense of how to create solid music that is unified and not designed to glorify one instrument to the exclusion of the others-not that I mind the pompous overblown music from Rhapsody! But the bottom line is that White Skull are a tight unit. And let me say it again, Frederica De Boni's vocals are absolutely fabulous.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars pretty decent retro power metal, November 14, 2000

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Jason P. Sorens "Political Scientist" (Tonawanda, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Public Glory Secret Agony (Audio CD)

White Skull's latest album holds no real surprises: what is on offer is direct, heavy power metal that reminds me of Grave Digger especially (except in the vocals). Overall, the songwriting is solid, though I don't think this album contains anything quite at the level of "Gods of the Sea" from their prior album ("Tales from the North"). White Skull also draws comparisons to Hammerfall and Nocturnal Rites, two power metal bands that also go for a "classic" sound with lots of dual guitar harmonies. Overall, I find White Skull a little less melodic than these two bands and maybe slightly lower in quality (if we don't consider Nocturnal Rites' disappointing new album).

The vocals are actually female, though I first assumed they were male. They are of the rough, Lita Ford-esque school.

For fans of the aforementioned bands White Skull is a desirable purchase, though they won't be blowing anybody away with this one. Favorite song: "The Roman Empire."

High 3 rating.