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AMBUSH "Evil In All Dimensions"
AMBUSH "Evil In All Dimensions"
By Dr. Abner Mality
Sweden's AMBUSH is a long-running power metal/true metal band that has no real identity of its own. That's blunt but truthful. And it doesn't mean this is a bad band or bad album...it's just that everything this band does has been done before by somebody else.
In power metal, one doesn't expect the avant-garde, but a band should have something to call their own. Starting with the title track, we are already awash in a flood of HAMMERFALL right down to the melodic twin guitar flourishes, Oskar Jakobsson's Joacim Cans cloning vocals and the jaunty, galloping pace one would expect from HAMMERFALL. They are an all enveloping influence on AMBUSH, along with PRIMAL FEAR. We get the PRIMAL FEAR loud and clear on tracks like "Iron Sign" and "Come, Angel of Night".
Some of the tracks you just can't resist no matter how derivative they are. "The Night I Took Your Life" and "The Bending of Steel" are just heads down pure metal bangers. The energy is certainly there, except for the tepid ballad "I Fear The Blood". But when "Evil In All Dimensions" reaches its predictable conclusion, you know AMBUSH is a follower, not a leader.
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