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Babylon

Heartless Germans come up with their sixth album Babylon, an album with a cover featuring the Tower of Babel. It is a pretty good looking cover for the band that has been around for little over a decade now, the debut album was released in 2012. They have reached the German charts once, with their latest album so perhaps their star is rising.

A noticeable feature of the band is the vocals in German, something that gives the album a fresher impression that English vocals would have done. The style itself is straightforward metal with good energy, some punkish directness and pretty rough vocals. If you have heard their countrymen of Unherz that we have reviewed many times for Hallowed, you can use them as a frame of reference for how it sounds. I think the production is good and powerful with lots of energy, but it isn’t a particularly varied album, and it doesn’t really offer anything that we haven’t heard before.

I think this is a good album with good songs, no weaker songs, but there are some pretty indifferent ones. There are also some spicier tracks even though the album is missing that outstanding hit song, a song that really brings you to the music of the band. That is something that would have really been beneficial to the album, but it should still be a very appealing album to fans of the straightforward heavy rock or metal.

Perhaps you shouldn’t just run to the record store or internet to buy you a copy of the album, but it could be worth checking out as it is quite possible that you might find it appealing. The issue for this album, like so many others, is that it isn’t really bringing out anything that we haven’t already heard before, there are more interesting albums both in the genre and otherwise. Babylon if a good album, fine piece of entertainment, but perhaps not the most memorable album I have heard.

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