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SAVAGED
Night Stealer

No Remorse (2024)
Rating: 7/10

Let’s not worry about the blandness of the band name, let us instead concentrate on the album artwork and the music within. Savaged is a killer Spanish combo that delivers potent and pure metal that harkens back to Judas Priest and the likes while nodding towards today’s traditional acts like Enforcer and Skull Fist.

Vocally, the tone of Jamie Killhead is a high one which soars above a sea of sizzling leads and scorching riffs. It’s certainly a fun heap of throwback metal not far removed from, say, Hitten, although there is a somewhat glammy edge on cuts like ‘Elm Street’, but the steel spine is a constant as are those fiery executions.

Admittedly there are a lot of bands of this ilk around, and there have been for decades, but one can’t deny the energy this platter gives off. Helloween melodies ensue on opening galloper ‘I Will Fight’, a sturdy slice of Teutonic steel with laced with speed metal nuances and gothic vapours. ‘Tons Of Leather’ marches with menace; it’s a rich and smouldering track I’d happily play alongside classic W.A.S.P. or Lizzy Borden.

Both ‘Knights Of Metal’ and ‘Money Sucks’ are hasty numbers led by Cristian Blade’s percussion, while ‘Running For Your Love (Tonight)’ is even faster, so one cannot overlook the exuberance here as the quartet zips through an array of vibrant songs led by those falsettos. Yes, at times the album feels dated, but that’s its aim – just look at the moustaches on the band members!

You’ll hear plenty of Iron Maiden-esque melodies and familiar segments unintentionally ripped with nostalgic chords, and that’s the comfort blanket here for what is essentially an enchanting if outmoded vehicle.

Neil Arnold

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