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Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on a cooked mixture of milk or cream and egg yolk. Why did they choose this name back in 1987? The band stayed underground for 12 years before releasing their first album 'Kingdoms of Your Life' in 1999. They have been releasing albums on a rather regular base since then, this 'Infested by Anger' is their fifth. The music on the earlier albums is European (read: German) power metal, influenced by bands such as Helloween and Gamma Ray. On this new record they add more US-metal influences and harmonic Maiden-like twin guitars. After an intro, the music of the first track "Gods of War" reminds a bit of old Judas Priest, which if executed well is no problem. Nothing wrong so far, but the band just doesn't impress me. First of all, the vocals of Oli Strasser; he tries to sound like Rob Halford at times, but he constantly derails or sounds a bit false. To me it starts irritating after a while. Another element is the US-metal influence they talk about. I would call that a Manowar influence. A lot of songs sound like Battle metal and there are musical similarities with their colleagues Majesty. Listen to the tracks like: "My Last Breath", "Time to Bleed" and "Death Shall Rise" with gang shouting refrains and the Manowar link is clear. I am not sure if this style change will bring them a lot more. The songs are too cliché and due to the false vocals and gang shouting the band sounds like a cheap mix of Judas Priest and Manowar to me. Looking at the tons of new material released every month, I personally would not spend my money on this one. | ||||||||||||||||||
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