Angel Dust
Enlighten the Darkness (Century Media)
by Martin Popoff
Now quickly and soundly arrived with three “reunion” albums (after a couple records in the late ’80s followed by a ten year hibernation), Germany’s Angel Dust are proving that power metal can indeed include a solid wallop of just that: Power. Aided and abetted by producer extraordinaire Siggi Bemm, Angel Dust’s weapons are many, a sampling of which include Dirk Assmuth’s dirty, boomy drum sound, Bernd Aufermann’s focus on low, grinding riffery and most impressively, Dirk Thurisch’s vocals, which remind me of Peter Goalby from early ’80s Uriah Heep, but with an extra couple of actorly roles within his repertoire.
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