Hall of the Mountain King

It's one of those radio heavy metal albums. It's decent enough, but the occasional screeching doesn't help. These are the guys you should be blaming for the rise of glam metal.

The Spotify version has two songs in an acoustic setting, and they're much better than anything on the original album. Must be me getting older and past this type of music.

2.5

This was a bit tedious and over-indulged, but it gains a star for the fact that the Mountain King appears to be wearing flip-flops.

Fun metal album.

I didn't really enjoy this. Too much prog, too much of that almost parody of a vocal high pitch voice.

Produced by the guy that would found Trans Siberian Orchestra. Shreddy metal with lots of high tenor wailing if that's what you are into. Title track is probably the best one on here. The anti drug anthem White Witch might actually do more damage by being a genuinely fun track that would make people want to do cocaine. You hear a lot of the inspiration for And Nothing Elese Matters by Metallica on Last Dawn. This grew on me as it went by.

These guys are a sister group of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Apparently they made a concept album in the early 90's called Dead Winter Dead. It did surprisingly well, and inspired the members to create TSO to explore the genre of rock theatre.

They remind me a lot of Iced Earth, Manowar or Saxon. Pretty solid 80's metal. And that album cover is a perfect power metal cover!

Favorite songs: White Witch, Hall of the Mountain King, Strange Wings, Legions, The Price You Pay, 24 Hrs. Ago, Prelude to Madness

Least favorite songs: Castles Burning

5/5

Now *THERE's* an album cover!

Extremely stupid cheesy 80s metal, which is usually a coin toss whether that'll be very fun or very annoying. This one is fun!

Classic metal, can make more room for this on the list.

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