The album takes more ass than last, the two predecessors, is somehow snappy and the songs come much more quickly to the point - everything is very stripped down and reduced to the essentials, it is incredibly fresh and ambitious over, as if you know it really again want. Axel Ritt is the latest I think with this album finally arrived at Grave Digger, with Manni Schmidt and Uwe Lulis my opinion, have a touch band introduced to provide supporting. Axel Ritt but has its own style and skin out of here some great riffs and solos, I was always afraid he would lead the band permanently on softer paths, which seems disproved with this album and it is surely no worries in this direction more making needs. After Grave Digger with your concept-album triptych ascent in the 90s in the first Heavy Metal 1. league and of notoriety and gained popularity strong, one has the concept has since mostly maintained and matched the music always sent to the respective topic, be so also each own limitations imposed - this time one can not approach uncompromising do exactly what you want to do, and the benefits from dam album. As musical stylistic comparison, the album is for me a blend of The Reaper (not quite as uncompromising rough violently) and Ballads of a Hangman (also mostly hard crunchy short songs). Production pops Reinsvoll and leaves no wish unfulfilled.
Return of the Reaper has become an extremely fresh crisp energetic album, which has become for me one of the best in the career Gravediggers, and deserved it fully to start by. So if somehow has interest in the band, then this album is just right to get you started or to try it again with Grave Digger. The hymns "Tattoed Rider", "Grave Desecrator" and "Season of the Witch" are grandiose Heavy Metal Firecracker, who have the makings of a classic. - Buy - Buy - Purchase
