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RAZOR ATTACK
Razor Attack

Self-released (2024)
Rating: 8.5/10

If you’re looking for a new favourite metal band then Sweden’s Razor Attack should fit the bill. With an album cover that suggests a dose of thrash metal, these guys are actually responsible for playing some of the most sweetly melodic heavy metal I’ve heard for some time.

Nine tight yet classic sounding cuts are delivered by a quartet that deserves a shot at stardom. Tommy Hedin, who plays guitar alongside Antos Savolainen, has a lofty vocal style that soars wonderfully above the crystal clear weaponry. The drums of Oscar Rask and the bass of Robert Thor provide the perfect backdrop of steel so that the axes and vocals majestically stride without effort.

If you were ever a fan of, say, Kick Axe or Overdrive back in the 80s then you’ll appreciate the metallic ingredients of this cauldron. You get whisked away into clinical yet Gothic soundscapes where a song like ‘Endless Dreams’ begins like Candlemass but then shifts into a ripping furnace of rich power metal. The fog of 1986 drifts through the ears and chills the spine with a nostalgic crackle before the grandiose thuds of ‘Reforged In The Fire’ come marching under the portcullis. Opener ‘Razor Of Steel’ burns with a Teutonic ferocity and yet unravels with a New Wave Of British Heavy Metal gallop.

An air of familiarity seems natural within the contours of this fluid yet boisterous slab of molten metal. The speed of ‘Armageddon’, the chugging strut of ‘Never Too Late’, the epic ‘High And Mighty’ and the loping fury of ‘The Righteous Fight’, it’s all there, a vintage Euro cocktail of cocksure brilliance that Sweden made their own in the halcyon days and now Razor Attack, even with that ill fitting cover, are carrying the torch again.

Neil Arnold

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