DRAKAR FLIGHT OF THE DRAGON 1990 HEAVY METAL THRASHIS
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This is the English version of a 1990 album by Czech part power, part thrash metal band Drakar.
The description of this album as “thrash metal” is probably the best place. Thrash – or at least progressive thrash – is a significant component of The Flight of the Dragon; beyond that, you might as well throw out anything related to the safe or conventional idea . The varied, intricate riffing, the otherworldly soloing, and the percussive drumming do constitute thrash at some level, but only in the sense that Voivod is thrash metal; specifically, somewhere around the Mountain Brain era. But that still doesn’t tell the story of this album. Add in some of Toxik’s screaming six-string work, and then mix it with croaky, speak-sing vocals and forays into the downright bizarre and you’ll feel yourself getting warmer. A good, suitably bare-bones production serves only to support the superb bass/guitar playing and drumming, which has a very organic feel to it that holds tightly together and amazes with moments of stone cold shredding. There are some truly dynamic songs on here that also happen to be quirky as hell, “Crazy Boy” one such example of overt quirkiness and a case of the strange. audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWynxJr9Jao
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