REVIEW: FEAR TRADERS - DRESSD IN BLACK

 

FEAR TRADERS - DRESSED IN BLACK (Independent, 2002)

Produced By: Francesco Rigagnelli with Francesco Antolini and Marco Milloni

Tracks: 1- A Prelude to Sadness/Dressed in Black, 2- Judgement Day, 3- Soul Outstanding, 4- Glasswall

Cover Art by Peter Dennis

Recorded at BPA Studio

This is pure heavy metal with some thrash influences and a lot of energy in the riffs. Here we have four songs of pure metal with some progressive arrangements done by the guitars and the bass. The vocals are strangely mixed here (they seem to be low in the mix and to have some strange reverb on them) and the vocal range is not the usual for the style that this guys do (great, because I like original vocalists). There is interesting drumming work (I would like them to mix a little bit louder the snare drum and some of the cymbals....the bass drums are perfectly mixed). The guitar sound is really raw and that adds a lot of energy because the general felling here is that of a live recording. I like that this guys use riffs that are not the usual in heavy metal nowadays preferring to use simpler riffs and a lot of clean guitars and bass parts. Here we have pure heavy metal ! 

Favorite tracks: "Judgement Day", "Soul Outstanding"

Contact: feartraders@lycos.it