“On Your Knees for Metal” is one of those mandatory songs about how great the genre is, and the music sells it convincingly. While other bands sometimes fade songs out for the last 15 seconds, on “Funeral” Midnight Priest decide to transition out of the climax of the song with one more guitar solo and end right after it. “Black Leather” is a triumphant closer that has some Visigoth muscle to it, ending the record strong and making a replay nearly inevitable. “Iron Heart” would be a Firepower highlight if Judas Priest played it-and that’s my favorite Priest record since Painkiller. The wonderful guitar interplay in the “Holy Flesh” midsection is the stuff great metal is made of.Īggressive Hauntings is the type of album that sneaks up on you in quality and longevity-the twentieth listen is exponentially better than the first. ![]() ![]() With no duds and subtly brilliant sequencing, Aggressive Hauntings is truly great fun for people who want energetic heavy metal with no ballads or ten-minute epics. Having spent over half the year with at least one Midnight Priest song stuck in my head at any given moment, it only seems right to pass the joy on to you. ‘tis the season of giving after all, and Aggressive Hauntings is a trad metal gift that keeps on giving unless riffs, solos, and fun make you crabby.
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