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Splizz Magazine
Sanctorum - Ashes Of Redemption
Whilst the CD cover art on Sanctorum’s second long player is not exactly inspiring, the music contained herein is a heavy metal fan’s dream. Their youthful exuberance and enthusiasm is tempered by a mature and commercially aware writing ability that pitches well above their tender years.
Sanctorum play a mightily impressive blend of British metal that is well crafted and will delight fans of outfits such as Bullet, Trivium, Arch Enemy, Devil Driver and Killswitch to name but a few.
Following in the impressive footsteps of their debut album, the mix of clean and cookie monster vocals, guitar hero styled solos, driving riffs and pounding drums should have heads bobbing frantically across the nation!
There are plenty of mini epics on this collection with great solos and roar-along vocal hooks to boot. They even manage to fit in some good ol’ gang vocals on “Against Us All”. Other highlight tracks include opener “Carved in Stone”, “Call to Arms” and “Tales of a Horror”.
A quick run through of the checklist then: accomplished metal vocals? Check. Speedy metal flourishes? Check. Chugging riffs? Check. Heavy bits? Check. Groovy geetar solos? Check. So, in summary, this album is as heavy as, oooh… a very heavy thing and if ‘Maiden want a first class British support act on their next world-striding tour, they could do a lot worse than these boys, is all I am saying!
You can check out the band on myspace or, alternatively, catch them when they are next touring in your area.
(8/10)
Steve Dulson of Splizz Magazine
