Artist : Taipan
Country : Australia
Release : Metal Machine
Year : 2013
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320
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“Metal Machine” is divided into two equal halves, as it if it was premeditated for the every listener, like a fiendish master plan. I believe that the first five tracks are pretty much what TAIPAN have always been, a sort of NWOBHM band mixing shards of the British movement along with attributes of BLACK SABBATH, mostly the Dio era. Judging by these tracks, these guys have some serious grooves. I also liked the drumming, pretty MAIDENish at points, but fairly tight. The skins’ mixing pushed them a bit forward in the overall output, but I could live with that. The general feeling out of this one was British, which it was hard for me to deny. Tracks like “Metal Machine”, “New Dawn” and “Minder” verified my admiration for British Metal. Even “Extremist Militance”, which even sounded like a mere DIO track, caught my attention right away with its energies and vintage straightforward atmosphere. Of course that TAIPAN found a way to break the chains of the movement a bit with making things slightly complex and sluggish, rhythm wise mainly, in order to produce a small dose of challenge. Nothing is that obvious with these mentioned songs, even if there is that catchiness soaring overhead.