Four figures standing on a hill. Dressed in the trendy fashion of the late eighties, with cowboy boots and fringes on their leather jackets. Not to forget the white leather jacket and hairstyles looking like the guys in EUROPE… Our four friends, dressed in their immaculate evening rocker outfits, stand on the hill and look at the next mountain. There a huge vulcano erupts, coughing out their band mascot – a cat-like type of creature – as a cloud of ashes into the air. If there was an official ranking for the shabbiest cover of the year. Guess whom… But, as it is so often the case: never judge a book by its cover! The classical Heavy Metal of our four Spanish freaks… No, we should talk about Happy Metal from the start, because that’s what it finally is: a lot of fun! With all respect: the band really has a knack for listening closely to all the coolest moves of the last fourty years of Heavy Metal history and putting something similar into their songs. Take that song ‘The Conqueror’ with its epic opening-riff and stomping progression, plus a little reverb on the vocals. When the middle section begins after a WHITESNAKE solo and the opening riff returns played faster… the song finally takes off and pushes a whole chain of associations through your head that doesn’t simply stop at MAIDEN, PRIEST, HELLOWEEN, LIZZY or EXCITER. The vocals are also very exciting, ranging from EUROPE and Joey Tempest to some (not all) heights of King Diamond, as in ‘Fire It Up’ or ‘Rising’. The quartet achieves something remarkable: anyone who sits attentively in front of their stereo-system and listens will often find themselves asking: Wasn’t that riff and solo on the PRIEST / EXCITER / HELLOWEEN album, or wasn’t this passage on WHITESNAKE / DOKKEN / EUROPE?“ But if you just simply let the album play, the catchiness of the song structures and these often anthem-like character in the music will quickly put you in a good mood! Believe me… www.facebook.com/savagedheavy, www.facebook.com/noremorserecordsgreece