IRONTASIA and HELLOGUY?

Madness, the guys from LANCER hit a maybe. Casual, playful and energetic fucking power metal, as I have long not heard him. Because it seems so, as if secretly founded in Sweden a band much younger versions of Steve Harris (Iron Maiden), Kai Hansen (GAMMA RAY, HELLOWEEN) and Tobias Sammet (EDGUY, AVANTASIA).

Quickly and without further ado I get just as Swedes in their second album Second Storm in the Review a; Running From The Tyrant flaring after a brief skirmish and not long ballert strong EU Power Metal out with doublebass thunderstorms and crunchy riffing. Frontman Isak Stenvall mimes the perfect end 80 / early 90's Power Metal singer somewhere between Kiske, velvet and Dickinson and comes quickly therefore with outrageously catchy chorus. The polyphonic singalong parts remind often to EDGUY and AVANTASIA. So also in no less energetic, but melody fell Masters And Crowns. But really back to the 80s it comes in furious Behind The Walls and so beat LANCER a bridge between the HELLOWEEN debut Walls Of Jericho and the infamous Keepers albums. For fans of this era is absolutely goosebumps guaranteed because the polyphonic Shouts and schwindeleregend high excursions from Fronter are a veritable feast combined with the rattling bass lines, the brilliant riffs and the old-school rhythm.

But there's more, although throttle the Northmen with Aton the pace, but deliver a spine-tingling epic of nine minutes by great tension and an outstanding chorus, to which adds towards the end of a AVANTASIA-worthy canon. Children Of The Storm then comes with true-Harris bass lines, therefore, Steelbreaker is a straight metal anthem that PRIEST would not have been better able to make and Eyes Of The Liar remixed MAIDEN with EU Power Metal before Fools Marches On again Pumpkinhead fans a fat smile to the face, there is a bass solo that reminds heroics at large head, no coincidence.

Wow, what a ride. LANCER can catch rare and guarantee the material sweaty and energetic live shows. I was immediately taken with the addiction Second Storm. Sure, here is the wheel is not reinvented and it is also often stolen, but these borrowed elements are combined with other, resulting LANCER have created their very own damn crisp sound. More of that!