WHITE TOWER
Night Hunters
Steel Gallery (2024)
Rating: 9/10
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The Greek metal arsenal gets stronger every day and a new outing from Thessaloniki-based White Tower will only bolster the national armour.
After a brief intro entitled ‘Blood’, White Tower introduces its audience to their sophomore platter via the deliciously speedy ‘Total Evil’. This is about 80s sounding as it gets and bizarrely it reminds me of the unknown heavy metal song (‘Kings Fall’?, ‘Fallen King’?) which has frustrated the heavy metal community for some time now. ‘Total Evil’ is that wondrous warm cross of speed metal and power metal, fuelled by the powerhouse vocals of Gago Karapetian.
As the album reveals itself further one hears a myriad of influences such as the bite of Accept, the screaming fury of Agent Steele and Judas Priest and the Teutonic muscle of Grave Digger and early Running Wild. Every now and then a band comes along that successfully taps into the pure mayhemic qualities of the steaming hot 80s scene and White Tower is just that band. With the wild solos of newest member and lead guitarist Nikos Patronopoulos, each and every song is a glinting tirade of molten steel propelled further into sizzling stratospheres by rhythm guitarist Orestis Koulas, bassist Nick Vekis and drummer Theodoros Trohidis.
Thankfully, another nine cuts follow. The superb title track sneers over a doomy riff and maintains a level of mid-tempo until exploding into a tirade of thrash punctured by a blazing solo. The album is littered with similarly fiery escapades: the mid-range rocker ‘Tear Up The Night’, the rollicking thrash up ‘Warmonger’, the raging ‘Knife In The Back’ and the galloping fury of ‘Enforcer’ with its simmering slow build.
The more I play Night Hunters the more I seem to run out of superlatives to describe its force. White Tower recapture the true glory of 80s power metal, so if you’re looking for a domain to soak up some steel then there’s no better place than this.
Neil Arnold
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