Category: IRON SAVIOR

German rockers IRON SAVIOR are celebrating a quarter of a century of band history and will release “Reforged – Ironbound” presenting lavish re-recordings of their best tracks and fan favorites from their first five albums.
Among re-imagined tracks from debut album Iron Savior (1997), sophomore album Unification (1999), Dark Assault (2000), Condition Red (2002) and Battering Ram (2004), the 2-CD release contains the previously only in Japan released “Living On A Fault Line”, as well as a cover of the Eurythmics ’80s hit “Sweet Dreams”.
In most of these re-recorded tracks, the new versions surpass the originals. Band leader Piet Sielck does lead vocals on songs where originally he didn’t, while Kai Hansen returns to faithfully sing his parts again on these refreshed tracks…

Two years after the latest output and a few hardships later (such as a global pandemic and bass player Jan-Soren Eckert suffering from a severe disease) Germans IRON SAVIOR will release their new album ”Skycrest” on December 4 via AFM Records.
After 10 albums under their belt, IRON SAVIOR isn’t power metal anymore.
Sure, there’s a few rapid metallic tunes here – yet commercial ‘happy metal’ and catchy – but the half of ”Skycrest” is hard rock / melodic hard rock oriented: ”Souleater” is a groovy hard rocker with an early 90s feel, ‘Raise The Flag’ brings to mind GOTTHARD or ECLIPSE, the extremely melodious ‘End Of The Rainbow’ sounds like 1985 Americanized ACCEPT, and ‘Ease Your Pain’ is a power ballad akin AXEL RUDI PELL.
So if you don’t like ‘power metal’, you better listen to ”Skycrest”, classic hard rock / melodic hard rock fans will find a lot to enjoy here, and very well done.

Germany’s power metallers IRON SAVIOR are ready to release their new opus titled “Kill Or Get Killed” next March 8th. Led by main man songwriter / vocalist Piet Sielck, the band has become one of the most popular acts of the ‘new wave of power metal’ scene. We never featured at this blog an album from this band, because while...