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│ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │
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│ + Stallion - Rise And Ride + │
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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Jan-23-2016 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Heavy Metal Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........2014 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......anthem Songs........10 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.heavymetalstallion.com ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Stallion Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : Rise And Ride Label : HR ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ It's always frustrating waiting ages and ages ║ │
│║ for a cool band to get their act together and ║ │
│║ release new material, so I was incredibly ║ │
│║ pleased to find out that the ripping German ║ │
│║ speed metallers Stallion were putting out their ║ │
│║ debut full-length just a couple months after I ║ │
│║ first heard their boner-inducing Mounting the ║ │
│║ World EP*. Don't be misled by the decidedly ║ │
│║ Running Wild-ish first track (cool as it is); ║ │
│║ this stuff has more to do with stuff like ║ │
│║ Canada's Striker or maybe Enforcer and old ║ │
│║ Accept than it does with Rolf and Co., but at ║ │
│║ the same time Stallion have a strong identity of ║ │
│║ their own due in no small part to frontman ║ │
│║ Paul's effects-tinged vocals that are nice and ║ │
│║ powerful but seeping with loads of glammy 80's ║ │
│║ sleaze. ║ │
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│║ Despite having a lot of fun with this, I think ║ │
│║ it's sort of telling that the one track the band ║ │
│║ opted to carry over from the EP is "Canadian ║ │
│║ Steele" rather than the incendiary speed metal ║ │
│║ madness of "Shadow Run", which was my favorite ║ │
│║ song from Mounting the World. It featured the ║ │
│║ most wild, over-the-top speed metal riffing on ║ │
│║ the whole thing, so choosing a slower number ║ │
│║ instead gave me some hint as to the direction ║ │
│║ Rise and Ride would take, and unfortunately I ║ │
│║ guessed correctly. Yep, sadly this is a slower ║ │
│║ record on average. There aren't really any ║ │
│║ ballads, but things slow down into hard rocking ║ │
│║ territory fairly often ("Streets of Sin," "Bill ║ │
│║ to Pay", etc.). ║ │
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│║ While I will admit to having an unabashed biased ║ │
│║ for the speed metal bits by default, it doesn't ║ │
│║ really help that the slower, rockier numbers are ║ │
│║ just kind of dull in spots. Take "Streets of ║ │
│║ Sin" - there's a nice sweat'n'leather refrain, ║ │
│║ but the main verse parts are just dull, generic ║ │
│║ "strum a muted powerchord, then change to a ║ │
│║ different one and strum that instead". The ║ │
│║ difference in energy levels between songs like ║ │
│║ that and utter face rippers like "Stigmatized" ║ │
│║ is just plain monumental. I'm probably also ║ │
│║ mentally comparing these guys to another recent ║ │
│║ speed metal find of mine, Finland's Speedtrap, ║ │
│║ who similarly revel in wicked fast speed metal ║ │
│║ bits but are smart enough to spend almost their ║ │
│║ entire album playing that stuff, instead of ║ │
│║ segregating it into a few really cool tracks ║ │
│║ while leaving the rest of the album to languish ║ │
│║ around in boring Accept b-side territory. ║ │
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│║ It's not that the rockers put me to completely ║ │
│║ to sleep, either. The whole album sounds totally ║ │
│║ pristine, with plenty of muscle in the guitars ║ │
│║ while still leaving tons of room for the playful ║ │
│║ bass and workhorse drums to breathe, and of ║ │
│║ course Paul sounds great throughout, so even ║ │
│║ when the songwriting starts to drag a bit ║ │
│║ everything still sounds really nice, and even ║ │
│║ the least interesting tracks have some pretty ║ │
│║ solid lead work to catch your ear when the riffs ║ │
│║ themselves kind of just happen. It's also not ║ │
│║ difficult to be amused by the band's hyper- ║ │
│║ immature, aggressive lyrics, like "Watch Out" ║ │
│║ which has lyrics that I'm fairly certain I wrote ║ │
│║ in high school about some "fucking dick" I hated ║ │
│║ at the time. The song's also got a really great ║ │
│║ main guitar lick, which places it a step above ║ │
│║ some of the other slower songs. ║ │
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│║ I really think I would have been just as pumped ║ │
│║ about this album as I was about the EP if it had ║ │
│║ been about three songs and twelve minutes ║ │
│║ shorter than it is. It's not that it's really ║ │
│║ overlong - hell, it's only 43 minutes front to ║ │
│║ back, pretty standard length - but there's just ║ │
│║ something incredibly great in the simplicity of ║ │
│║ just-shy-of-a-half-hour speed metal albums that ║ │
│║ aren't afraid to take keep their foot on the gas ║ │
│║ for nearly the entire duration. Stallion are ║ │
│║ clearly good enough at writing really killer ║ │
│║ speed metal tunes anyway, so my best guess is ║ │
│║ that the slow dull rock songs exist entirely to ║ │
│║ give the band something to play to take a ║ │
│║ breather during their live sets so that their ║ │
│║ hands don't fall off. Even so, this is still ║ │
│║ shitloads of fun, if a couple notches shy of ║ │
│║ revelatory. ║ │
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│║ *I try to squeeze in as many references to ║ │
│║ HORSE! COCK! as I can in my life. ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - Rise And Ride [04:46] │
│ 02 - Wild Stallions [04:13] │
│ 03 - Streets Of Sin [04:37] │
│ 04 - Stigmatized [03:54] │
│ 05 - Canadian Steele [03:34] │
│ 06 - Bill To Pay [04:22] │
│ 07 - Watch Out [04:24] │
│ 08 - The Right One [03:51] │
│ 09 - The Devil Never Sleeps [05:13] │
│ 10 - Wooden Horse [04:08] │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ Too all people who contributes to make this │
│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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