Already the opener "The Ancient Cries" is equal to fully off and takes no prisoners, first highlight is then certainly "Babylon". The title track "Dragonheart", the "Painkiller" -Keule is also equal to unpacked, although the song but remains the building by then behind the great Judas Priest-model - but well, there are a few songs that the timeless genius of this Priest Hammer songs reach. Then the men get Joey DeMaio paid tribute - with a pounding beat and very "truem" chorus comes "Thunders of the Night" from the fact that due to the high sing-along factor is a further highlight of the album. With "City of Angels" Then come the Hardock influences forward, especially to Whitesnake to force comparisons. After communicating with "Nocturnal" a straighte uptempo number on the program, however, which provides little highlights. "Northern Nights" is then again a bit more epic and melodic, although still quite fast underlaid with double bass - then there in the middle part surprising Keyboard deposits, followed by mashed Passage. With "Open Fire" has still draufgepackt a 80s-influenced heavy rocker that ensures orderly going as a party-metal track. The final, relatively long "Ivory Gates" presents itself then as slowly at first incipient epic track, the then celebrated with quite classic, cool screming-guitar-solo first, sparsely instrumented Chorus before then "right" goes off and back into the tried and true heavy metal rail switches.
About all songs also enthroned the hammer-body of Mike Tirelli, who can come along very soft and bluesy in the "clean" documents, in the higher phase, by the great masters Ronnie James Dio sounds, and at the very high Screams not before Rob Halford and company have to hide!
All in all a clean produced, classic Teutonic Metal album that before more famous genre colleagues not have to hide and certainly has its strong moments. New or original is not commanded by Messiah's Kiss - therefore "only" four stars - but the "old heroes" of the genre are more than duly celebrated, popping the drums, press the guitar, above all a first-class, versatile singer, fundamentally strong compositions make the humor - in short, a thoroughly enjoyable Heavy Metal album. Fans of the aforementioned genre greats such as Saxon, Priest, Dio etc. can safely access when they want something new (but this should then not be "re")! Here fits (almost) all 4 stars!
