The German band Reaper is celebrating the band's 30th anniversary with a new
album. They were formed in 1984 and played plain heavy metal (think Grave Digger,
Running Wild, Accept). This is their fourth album so you can imagine that they
have been out of the picture for quite some time.
In general their music is teutonic metal. Sometimes you hear a sporadic
influence from other metal genres, a little black metal and a bit death metal, but
that shouldn't have a name. The instrumental "Hetoimasia" is immediately one of
the more interesting tracks. Also the guitar riff at the beginning of "Realms of
Chaos" starts rather nice, and make me think of Metal Church a little. Then the
song carries on like a Grave Digger track and the vocals of Daniel Zimmermann
see to that also. It certainly would have been a pleasure telling you that the
rest of the album is very interesting stuff, but I would be a liar then. The
majority of the tracks to follow are average German heavy metal songs that do
not get the same level as the songs of a band like Grave Digger. After the first
2 tracks I expected more, but it left me a bit dissapointed. They sure can't
compete with Grave Digger yet.
I'm sure there will be a large fan base in Germany, but I think that's about it
for them.
