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Lethal Saint: Lethal Saint Heavy Metal Pitch Black Records February 9th, 2010
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Review
Lethal Saint is another entry into the Metal Revival that seems to be going on lately, having a sound that would come out of your mono speakers when you picked up the latest eighties Heavy Metal LP from the local record store, comprised of metal that you could picture being played at a party with all your metal friends, all wearing your finest leather, black band shirts, and tattered blue jeans while drinking whatever kind of beer someone would buy a group of underage Heavy Metal fans. This description is very important, because Lethal Saint's debut self-titled album sounds exactly like that, except instead of those people you could picture at this party are most likely to be the people in this band who decided to pick up some instruments and start up a band to be like their favorite artists, which is great. The only problem is, there may still be a little too much alcohol in the tank as far as one of these members go. Lethal Saint is a very interesting album, having a rather low mono-esque sound to the recording you would expect to hear if you threw your favorite LP on from back in the day. Aside that, the music the band plays is clearly a cross between Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, which leads to some pretty good tracks. Musically, the album is on fire right from the start with "Chains of the Devil", and everything that made the early Metal scene so wonderful is here outside the production, including simple yet catchy guitar hooks, the music that seems to just chug along like an on coming train, and the high powered guitar solos that actually last more then five seconds and make you not want to touch your guitar. The only problem with the release, sadly, would be the vocals. While the band's vocalist is not a bad singer, which is evident by his singing abilities during the track "Thunder Strikes", as well as on "Heavy Metal Knights", it's mostly that there are times where does go off key, and the echoing, hollow distortion used on him doesn't help at all. "Chains of the Devil" greatly falters from this issue, almost sounding as if the vocalist is trying his heart out with the higher falsetto vocals, but only failing when trying to incorporate some lower vocals that go out of tune with the rest of the music. Luckily this isn't the case throughout the entire album. It actually only sounds like a problem through the start of the release, almost as if the vocalist started to put some more effort into hitting the correct pitch as the release goes on, leaving Lethal Saint to be a great throwback to the classic Heavy Metal style around the time of "Evil Inside". This is also good news due to some of the slower tracks on here. "Heavy Metal Knights" is basically a slower paced anthem track about Metal worship, and it's actually very well done and will make you proud to be a fan of the metal scene without it being too over the top in the cheese factor. Then you have the track "Visions in the Night" which is more of a ballad track that has enough stamina to keep you at attention from start to finish and not come off as repetative. These are the better tracks off the album. Aside these, the rest of the album has some great songs that sound like instant classics that have some real impact behind them. But, sadly, some of the tracks on here, such as "Final Prayer" and "Rock 'N' Roll Survivor", don't quite have the same impact. Lethal Saint is an album that is worth checking out, especially if you're looking for something to rock out to when you crack open a fresh bottle of Jager or some other form of alcoholic beverage, but it just doesn't quite have that much of a lasting appeal.
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