Iron Savior fans?

Any fans of Iron Savior? I love the band they play kick ass heavy metal in the traditional style. My favs are Dark Assault & Battering Ram.

Here is a discography what's your fav?

Iron Savior 1997
Unification 1999
Interlude 1999
Dark Assault 2001
Condition Red 2002
Battering Ram 2004

New one comes out about mid year!

Very similar to Gamma Ray!

Wargod48

NP: Iron Savior - Dark Assault

Used to have their debut, but traded it away years ago...

I Like Dark Assault the most myself, have 'em all including the singles too.

They seem to come accross as the type of band that people either like or don't.

I only have Unification but I like it alot

i have the debut. the only song i really like is the Nazareth cover. the rest is kind of bland. i'm not the biggest power metal fan though.

I gave up on them after the first two; which is perhaps unfair. They seemed at that point to be traditional to the point of boring. Formulaic Power Metal. The other band from that period that I gave up on early was Metalium. Again, maybe they improved, but I gotta invest wisely.

From what I've heard I like them a lot!

Since I posted about Iron Savior; I've been thinking about why it is that I didn't care for them. They are obviously professional and skilled players; and are good at making a kind of music that people enjoy. It's just that at that time I was looking more for something progressive like Veni Domine. But there is no reason anyone has to like only cutting edge stuff...hell...lately I have been into traditional hard rock (Rory Gallagher, Status Quo, etc.) Nothing cutting edge there, that's for sure. I like Vardis; which is a NWOBHM band whose act consists of pretty much doing an impression of Status Quo; and I like post NWOBHM era Slade; who is at that point doing an impression of Quiet Riot who was doing an impression of pre NWOBHM Slade (if you can follow that). So if you like it, go for it, there's nothing wrong with a tried and true groove.

SAHB Healer wrote:

lately I have been into traditional hard rock (Rory Gallagher.)

Nothing wrong with some Rory, He was a fine Guitarist,

Although I wouldn't consider Rory hard rock more blues rock than anything else to bad he died!

Wargod48

Yup, very good band. I only have a burn of Condition Red, though....need to eventually get the real deals.

I like them alot! I only have Condition Red, but i think they have reissued all their albums, and they are nice price.
So more will be added to my collection soon.

I am partial to their debut although I like condition red a lot. I have all their stuff and most of the albums are generally a good listen.

Alex

I have all their stuff except CONDITION RED (dunno why I skipped that one, just never got around to it I guess)... excellent band, especially the debut and BATTERING RAM. Aren't they about due for a new CD? The last one came out almost three years ago!

Iron Savior - Megatropolis


I've been listening to this again lately and I must say I really like it! All the songs are catchy and well written (to my tastes, at least).

It didn't seem to get many good reviews but it's one of my favorites of the last year or so.

I'm a fan. Most German bands in this vein are great examples of something a lot of people take as generic or whatnot proving it's just the songs that matter, no matter how outside the box or not music is. I am one of the ones that hasn't liked a whole lot of stuff past the Kai Hansen era, though. But my least favorite songs on the albums were usually the ones he sang on... like 'Deadly Sleep' just doesn't make any sense melodically. I like the debut and 'Unification' the best, with my favorite songs being 'Brave New World', 'Mind Over Matter', and 'Coming Home'.

Never been a fan but have most of their albums. My fave is their second release. I saw them a couple of times live but they were always a little boring. Energy yes, but no stage attitude or real metal looks, specialy the singer. We looked more metal down in front of the stage then those guys on stage (but is that not nearly always the case with us????? I think so )

I recently saw one of their discs in the used bins at the local FYE. I've been debating if I should grab it or not. Some of the reviews I've read were kinda mediocre at best, so I passed for now.

I like Battering Ram the best. The new one was a real snoozefest though IMO.

Man, I love it. Funny how that goes!

i thought the megatropolis was too generic sounding. Iron Saviour was never terribly original in the first place but they were bland for my tastes on megatroplis..

Alex

SAHB Healer wrote:

... and I like post NWOBHM era Slade; who is at that point doing an impression of Quiet Riot who was doing an impression of pre NWOBHM Slade (if you can follow that).

That might be the best description of mid-to-late 80s era Slade I've heard

Seriously, that's awesome.

And I love that era of the band too

Wargod48 wrote:

Any fans of Iron Savior? I love the band they play kick ass heavy metal in the traditional style. My favs are Dark Assault & Battering Ram.

Here is a discography what's your fav?

Iron Savior 1997 3.
Unification 1999 1.
Interlude 1999 5.
Dark Assault 2001 4.
Condition Red 2002 2.
Battering Ram 2004 7.

New one comes out about mid year! Megatropolis 6.

Very similar to Gamma Ray!

Wargod48

NP: Iron Savior - Dark Assault

I saw them play live at PPUSA IX last year! Phenomenal show!(Hey! I found the search option. Be VERY afraid!) :glee:

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Man, I love it. Funny how that goes!

Darn tootin'! Hey man! Long time, no see! How's Abilene treatin' ya?

Better all the time!

You gonna post more these days?