“The Conquest of Time” welcomes the fan with the reliable and very well-used “The Fighting Eagle” with its I-have-heard-this-guitar-riffing-before-somewhere whose sound everyone knows and everybody thinks it’s perfect. Why change it if it works? The song uses that formula of guitar riff only to then add the bass and the drums which always causes some buzz. I always like this kind of drumming the band uses here. It’s so thrilling. A highlight to the guitar interventions in this song and in the album. They’re sharp and striking. It seems guitar duo Staffan Tengnér and Leo Ekström learned all the lessons from 1980’s bands. By the way, the duo isn’t only on the guitars but also on all the instruments. “The Fighting Eagle” is followed by the Iron Maiden riffage inspired “Black Revenant” whose break was the one that told me where their influences came from. All those bands I aformentioned had a strong Iron Maiden influence everyone could tell, but it was that influence that made it possible to them build up their personality. Century, as they aren’t a primary source, on the very opposite, may have gotten those influences from their contemporaries. What I feel here, though, is that the duo passed lots of their listening to some obscure and non-obscure Old School Metal bands and from them built up their personality. “Victim in Chains,” for instance, has some early Saxon riffage.
The good old times of Metal music are secure with “The Conquest of Time” I have no doubt. It may not be the most original album of all, but their honesty and energy is to be praised. Isn’t it what really matters?
Century “The Conquest of Time” will be released on April 21st via No Remorse Records.
Track Listing:
- The Fighting Eagle
- Black Revenant
- Sinister Star
- Victim in Chains
- The Conquest of Time
- Master of Hell
- Distant Mirror
- Breakthrough
- Servants of The Iron Mask
Watch “Master of Hell” official track stream:
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I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!