Primal Fear's Reviews

Jaws of Death

Make it three and half....

However, upon listening to it more it's grown on me. It's not as good as it's sucessor, however it is more experimental and more than just a Judas Priest 'Painkiller' rip off which their first album certainly was.

Tracks like 'Under Your Spell' and 'When The Night Comes' slow down, but up the groove in the process and are really catchy. There is more experimentation with strings and other effects on the intro's as well. This classyness isn't true of every track though admitedly. But stand out 'Nuclear Fire' style metal tracks include 'Church Of Blood', 'Nation In Fear', 'Final Embrace' and 'Hatred In My Soul'.

You do have to let it grow on you, but it is more complicated than the straight ahead style of their first release. It's just some of the riffs let it down here and there. When you buy this, your buying it for five or six stand out tracks really, not the entire album (which is certainly case with their next album), but 'Under Your Spell' is one of their best songs though. Overall it's not as bad as people are making out, but you do have to let it grow on you.

(p.s. On a completely superficial note, the box it comes in is this really cool hardback digipack thing with lots of lovely reflecty bits on it so you could probably reclycle this and use it as some sort of reflective device, perhaps a mirror. That's if you are really unsatisfied with it that is. You shouldn't be though)

Buy this album on Amazon at $15.98