RONNY MUNROE — Lords of The Edge (review)

RONNY MUNROE — Lords of The Edge album cover Album · 2011 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Stephen
Let me pick a quote from somewhere on the net on how they describe 'Lords of The Edge' - a blend of Metal Church's Light In The Dark with Queensryche EP and Judas Priest's Painkiller. Not that it's untrue actually, there are lots of going on here under the influences of those three, and especially the promising fast-paced opener, 'Just Breathe', that just went to the border of power metal with a splendid verse/chorus attack. 'Full Circle' shows how Munroe can scream like Lord Diablo straight outta hell, and this heavy metal track is highly infectious, followed by another monstrous track, 'Pierced By The Maiden', which of course influenced by Iron Maiden, especially on the harmonic riffs and the song pattern.

But somehow it all went downhill after that. The inconsistent in songwriting and lack of something strong like the first three tracks are the gloomy part. There are three uninspiring ballad attempt here, 'The Vision', 'Goodbye To The Black', and 'Still Alive' which I think unnecessary even though at least one or two tracks aren't bad at all.

'Blood Red Sun' and 'Touched By A Demon' are by far the worst skippable tunes. The rest actually have potentials but 'The Fear of What's To Come' started nice before veering to a very average ending and 'Rock And A Hard Place' tried to emulate 'Full Circle' success but failed. Luckily, 'Let Them Feed' is good enough to boost the whole album a bit higher.

Ronny Munroe is a fantastic singer, no doubt about it, in fact, his versatile singing throughout the album totally deserved the needed attention, and not to mention the guitarists are insanely good too - it's just that this album was flooded by too many uninteresting and painfully average songs, and Ronny needs to pay more attention to that in the next album.

Intended for fans of Ronny and probably the three bands I've mentioned earlier, a mix of power metal and traditional heavy metal back and forth, overall quite far from essential, but harmless to have especially for the first three tracks.
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