Primal Fear - Unbreakable

The album opens with a splendid intro track that builds to the climax with "Strike". The song has a huge production and kick ass drum sound that drives the excellent riff forward. Then Ralf Scheepers chimes in with his Halford-esque squealing vocal making for a great heavy metal beginning to Unbreakable. This does not end as the album unfolds into more excellent heavy rock n' roll for all to bang thy head's to. The album weaves through Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and Halloween territories never losing themselves to their influences. The wickedly good "Bad Guys Wear Black" is reverent in its aggression and metallic thunder.
 
Let get this straight this album never comes close to a misfire and each song has enough going on that it is a winner. I would go on to compare it to the absolutely perfect Humanity: Hour One as it is as good albeit different but easily as solid as that album is and might even be a touch more fun considering all the glorious headbanging fun you will enjoy here. When "Unbreakable (Part 2)" gets to the 3:15 mark and the instrumental pounding begins I had to admit I was excited to hear the guitar solo that was coming, I loved it 'nuff said. Now with the excellent quality of the songs on Unbreakable it could have been a track or two shorter which would have driven the quality to an infinite level of success. Even though the length is a tad long this album is to be lauded as the bands greatest album. The surprising excellence of 16.6: (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) was the beginning of this renaissance period which I'm sure we are just in the middle of and I hope that the band continue to grow and bring the thunder for years to come if this is the kind of metal we can expect from Primal Fear.