FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – I Am The Weapon (2024)

There is one thing for sure in this sometimes cruel little planet; legends never die, they live forever. It’s only what I can say when I hear a band like FLOTSAM AND JETSAM and their long career dedicated to the greatness of Metal music. I guess I could say each album recorded and released is a real victory no matter the quality of it, but thing is, veteran’s albums are always great. It’s just the way they do it. They know all the shortcuts. A band like Flotsam and Jetsam knows a long career has its ups and downs, maybe more downs than ups as the band tasted the bitter taste of ostracism. It’s not easy to be always the heat of the moment.
Since their last album Flotsam and Jetsam chose, as Saxon, to recriate their music and contribute with what is called today Melodic Thrash Metal. From where I’m standing, the upcoming new CD “I Am the Weapon” has more of the Thrash Metal that made the band famous, however, with much more melody.

As an album, “I Am the Weapon” can be divided into two very distinctive moods. The first values Flotsam and Jetsam’s Thrash Metal roots, as album warmer “A New Kind of Hero” with a striking and killing speed and mood. Or the corrosive and fast as hell album tittle “I Am the Weapon.”
The other mood would a more melodic one sounding at some moments as Deep Purple in their “Perfect Strangers” era as in “Beneath the Shadows” where the band gives some very groovy movements. In fact, this facet of the band is everywhere melted in the album.

01 – A New Kind of Hero
02 – Primal
03 – I Am The Weapon
04 – Burned My Bridges
05 – The Head of the Snake
06 – Beneath the Shadows
07 – Gates of Hell
08 – Cold Steel Lights
09 – Kings of the Underworld
10 – Running Through the Fire
11 – Black Wings

Eric “AK” Knutson (Vocals)
Steve Conley (Guitar)
Michael Gilbert (Guitar)
Bill Bodily (Bass)
Ken K Mary (Drums)

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