Metal Blade
2006
Angel Blake
About This Album
When a musician goes from one band to another, the new band might be similar to the old one, or it might favor a totally different sound. John Lydon's Public Image Ltd., for example, didn't sound anything like his former band, the Sex Pistols -- and the rap-metal that Tommy Lee offered with Methods of Mayhem didn't sound a bit like Mötley Crüe. So with Angel Blake -- a project that Sweden-based guitarist Marko Tervonen started putting together after the 2004 breakup of his former band, the Crown -- are we looking at something similar or something different? The answer is something different; very different. The only thing that Angel Blake's self-titled debut album has in common with the Crown's work is the fact that both are relevant to metal, but while the Crown embraced a high-speed death metal/thrash approach, there isn't a trace of Nordic-style death metal to be found on this 2005 recording (released in 2006). Angel Blake is generally a much slower band, and even though there are some thrash-influenced moments, Tervonen's new project (which employs Tony Jelencovich of Transport League/B-Thong fame on lead vocals) isn't nearly as velocity minded as the Crown.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4 and 9)

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