The solos in “We Walk Without Fear” really are incredible though it’s kind of disappointing for a 10+ minute song. The melodies and the solos are killer and show enough variety to satisfy me but every riff sounds so similar that it’s hard to distinguish them from each other. The biggest problem is the lack of variety in the riffs. Find something original and relevant to sing about. How many of these have Primal Fear written in the past and how many have been written by so many other bands? I love metal but it’s gotten to the point where it feels like a songwriting and lyrical cop-out for bands when they can’t think of original lyrics. It’s a great song honestly and I love metal as much as the next guy but I’m getting tired of hearing songs about its greatness. The one time the band falters lyrically is in the song “In Metal We Trust”. Rolf Scheppers’ voice is in fantastic form on this album and the melodies and lyrics are killer as is always the case with Primal Fear. Full point deduction! Other than that mishap though, the riffs on this album are nice and heavy and the songs move at a pretty decent clip. They committed a songwriting fallacy and for that, they must be punished. How? The riffs are awesome and the tune is a total banger but the devil’s torture instruments aka pinch harmonics, drag it down to a whimper. The question was, could the power of one little tattoo help them figure out domestic bliss? God, Bucky hoped so.The album’s opener, “Angels of Mercy” starts with a bang and a whimper. But then life’s inevitable road bumps had come into play: a gang of unruly teenagers making life harder (but also better), and Steve spending more and more time away from home. To symbolize the excessive gooeyness of their new and wondrous love affair, Bucky decided to get a tiny heart tattooed on his hand as a surprise for Steve. He’d left his Wakandan safety net to dive headfirst into a real, honest to goodness, romantic relationship with Steve, and, surprise, surprise, life in New York was a hell of a lot more complicated than hanging out with Shuri by the lake and chillin’ with his goats. Needless to say, it was a big change for Bucky.
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