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Band
Lady Beast
Title
Vicious Beast
Type
LP/EP
Company
Cruz Del Sur
YOR
2018
Style
Traditional
Popular Reviews
Career high water mark for these traditional metal stawlarts
'Vicious Breed' marks a resume high for the traditional metal stalwarts. These Pittsburgh natives signed with Cruz Del Sur last year and bring a fiery momentum to the studio for this third full-length effort. It's awash in NWOBHM features--twin guitar runs, mid to high vocal range--while waylaying the listener with supernatural and fantasy lyrics. The wild card are two newer angles, a ballad called "Always with Me" and an instrumental entitled "Sky Graves". After failed attempts to find faults, I'm awarding it the coveted badge of perfection.
Recommended for fans of: Cauldron, Acid, Iron Maiden
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ALL REVIEWS FOR: LADY BEAST
TITLE
DOR
COMPANY
REVIEWER
DATE MADE
RATING
Vicious Beast 2018 Cruz Del Sur Eric Compton 1/19/2018 5
ALL INTERVIEWS FOR: LADY BEAST
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEWER
DATE
TAGLINE
Deborah Levine Eric Compton 12/8/2017 "It's a Message to Turn that Dark into a Light"
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