Battering Ram [Import]

Battering Ram [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese pressing of the German power metal band's 2004 album includes one bonus track 'The Call'. Battering Ram is a pleasingly solid demonstration of Iron Savior's talents. Nexus.

Tracks:

Take It Down From The Mast
Sean South
The Man From The Daily Mail
Dungannon '57
General Munro
Swallow's Tail Reel/The Sligo Maid (Instrumental)
Henry Joy
Come Out And Fight
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
The Foggy Dew
Who Dares To Say (Poem)/Reels: Fernoy Lasses/Mrs. McLeod's Reel/O'Rourke's Reel...
British Army
James Larkin
Broad Black Brimmer

Customer Reviews:

Rebel Songs : The battering Ram.......2003-12-13

Bravo, This is one of the best Rebel cd I have heard, anyone who likes Irish rebel Music knows there is a lot of cheap crap out there. This CD is not one of them. The Bands singer Declan Hunt is a legend in Ireland. I own all the Dubliners, Wolfe Tones , Irish Brigade and Compulation CD that are in print. But this is the CD I go back to time and time again. If your a fan of real Irish Rebublican Music. BUY THIS CD !!!!!

Great Songs, Inconsistent Voice Quality, Overall, buy it.........2001-05-05

This is a very good album that unfortunately fails to achieve it's full potential. The album includes much of the "standard fare" that has been around for the last 20 - 30 years in "Republican" strongholds in Ireland and the US.

The songs are sung with the enthusiasm that they were intended to receive. Too many times one experiences a rousing "Rebel Ballad" that has been ruined by a group that doesn't realize the song was never intended to become "elevator music". The group on this album has supplied the emotion these songs deserve, which is appreciated.

The only real criticism of this album is the vocalists are out of their depth on some of the songs. The audio clarity is good, the problem is, the vocalist(s) occasionally don't achieve the same standard. This greatly affects the overall pleasure this album could have delivered.

Having said this, I do highly recommend this album's purchase. My criticism of some selections vocalist results should not detract from judging this as overall a very enjoyable album.

To use a baseball metaphor, instead of "hitting a home run" the vocal quality on some of the songs results overall in the album achieving only a "ground rule double". Not the ultimate result a ballplayer wants, but certainly very acceptable.

Bottom line, this album will not be out of place at your next party where "the Guiness flows, and the Brit's are rubbished". Especially if you are trying to recreate the atmosphere (vocal quality wise) which is found in many "pubs" which feature live "Rebel" music.

Classic Irish Rebellion Songs!.......2001-02-06

Originally released in 1973 on Rounder Records, Dublin's Battering Ram's Irish Rebel Songs rates up there with the Wolfe Tones' Rifles of the IRA and the Clancy Brothers' The Rising of the Moon: Irish Songs of Rebellion. Classics from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as General Munro, Come Out and Fight (You Black & Tans), Sean South, and Take it Down are great upbeat tracks that will get your Republican blood pumping as you sing along at the tops of your lungs. Highly recommended! Slainte!

Average customer rating:

Solid Slab Of Metal
Yield To The Battering Ram Of The Iron Savior
Metalic Masters of Power Metal
What happened to the IRON SAVIOR?

Battering Ram
Iron Savior
Manufacturer: Noise
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Unification
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ASIN: B00028HP3K
Release Date: 2004-06-22

Tracks:

Battering Ram
Stand Against The King
Tyranny Of Steel
Time Will Tell
Wings Of Deliverance
Break The Curse
Riding Free
Starchaser
Machine World
H.M. Powered Man

Customer Reviews:

Solid Slab Of Metal.......2005-01-19

This is not my favorite Iron Savior release but it is solid as expected. This time around Piet seems to be building less speed songs and instead adding a few mid-tempo, more rock oriented songs. It's still pure metal just not all speed metal. I personally like Dark Assault the best of the Iron Savior releases but generally I like all the IS releases fairly equally.

Here is my song review:

Battering Ram - Strong opening song. Heavy and fast. 8/10

Stand Against The King - Good fast song but I don't like the chorus that well. Music is good though. 6/10.

Tyranny Of Steel - Great fast song with good chorus. 8/10

Time Will Tell - Mid/Fast tempo song. One of the better 8/10

Wings Of Deliverance - Songs very similar to Judas Priest's classic song Desert Plains. Same use of sound effects on the vocals. A very good song sounding like classic Judas Priest. 8/10

Break The Curse - Mid tempo stomper. A bit progressive with a terrible chorus. A filler song. 1/10

Riding Free - Really fast butt kicker in the typical vein of Iron Savior classics. One of the best songs for sure. 8.5/10

Starchaser - Powerful mid tempo song with not a great chorus. Better than filler but not a standout. 5/10

Machine World - IS rips off a couple lyrical lines from Judas Priest here. This song has some really great parts to it although the chorus is a bit weak. I still like it a lot though. 8/10

Heavy Metal Powered Man - A typical waste of time rah rah for heavy metal song. Kind of a rock/metal feel to it. Not my bag at all but not terrible. 4/10

I guess you can see there is not any super standout tracks on this release but then again Iron Savior is generally more solid than standout. You get what you pay for. Solid heavy metal played the old school way but with also has a modern production and speed. To say 4 stars is reasonable but 5 would definitely without question be a stretch.

Yield To The Battering Ram Of The Iron Savior.......2004-12-31

From www.MaximumMetal.com

This CD starts off with a bang that instantly gets you into the groove of the music. While Iron Savior has been around for a few albums already I have not had any exposure to them so I was not certain what to expect from them with this release. However, loading "Battering Ram" into the CD player did not give me any disappointment. One thing that stands out on this CD in particular is that it is a definite homage to the early power metal that came before it. Heavy tracks with excellent guitars and drums and vocal lines that make you raise your voices and fists into the air. There are also a wide variety of styles going through the piece, not all numbers are fast. One or two of them have a Judas Priest feel while others could be a Motley Crue track if done by those bands. Not bad comparisons.

Standout tracks for me are definitely the first three numbers on the CD. The lineup for this release is Piet Sielck (guitar, lead vocals), Yenz Leonhardt (bass & backing vocals), Joachim "Piesel" Küstner (guitars & backing vocals), Thomas Nack (drums & percussion). The vocals don't lose a step throughout the whole piece and the backups prompt you to sing along. The guitar work is clean and enjoyable. Not over the top with lead riffs, only where they are best suited. The drumming is steady and rumbles throughout. A nice clean production overall.

I mentioned earlier how I was not educated in the back catalog. This does not change the high number I have given this CD. It is good enough for the new listener and a must have for the die hard fan. This is also a great piece for someone who is looking for a solid piece of metal to enjoy. Noise records has been doing some good for the forces of metal and this is another good one. Check it out.

Metalic Masters of Power Metal.......2004-11-14

Contrary to what many have said this CD more than lives up to Iron Savior's previous works, in fact I would say Battering Ram displays how they have matured. If I were to rate individual songs I would award them point thusly:
1.) Battering Ram 8.5/10 A nice opening track, that pulls you in.
2.) Stand Against the King 9/10 Great track about, well quite obviously overthrowing a tyrannical king.
3.) Tyranny of Steel 8/10 This song reminds me of the Matrix in that Humans have become enslaved by Machines
4.) Time Will Tell 10/10 A great fast song that demonstrates their skill.
5.) Wings of Deliverance 9/10 A slower song, that is nonetheless great.
6.) Break the Curse 7/10 This is Probably my least favorite song on the CD, though it has some nice solo work.
7.) Riding Free 10/10 My favorite song on the album, it's a very fast song about breaking free from this world of terror and violence.
8.) Starchaser 9.5/10 This is another great song typical to Iron Savior.
9.) Machine World 8/10 This is song is a little darker sounding that their previous songs.
10.) H.M. Powered Man 9/10 A very nice closing track, about the singer/guitarist's destiny to play Metal.

Overall this is a great album, one of their best in my opinion, and displays their immense skill at writing power metal songs.

What happened to the IRON SAVIOR?.......2004-09-16

I've been an Iron Savior fan since they released their first album. Now it's the time for their new-brand-2004 album "Battering Ram". What the title in the review says is what surprised me most of this record. What happened to the Calderans, Atlantis, the bio-unit and all the imaginary world in the Iron Savior story, that has delighted us release after release?. Where have the drawings of spaceships and artworks of intergalactical wars gone? I don't know. There is no trace in this record of THE Iron Savior (the vessel), what is really surprising, because it has been the band's basement. Lyrically and musically, the album is 100% the usual Iron Savior. Catchy choruses, screaming guitar-riffing and punishing drums, in charge of the always-reliable Thomas Nack, along with the pounding sound typically of power metal and Iron Savior.

Now let's go to the 3-star deal. I'm terribly sorry to disagree with the other reviewer. I think the album lacks of good ideas. It's a little repetitive sometimes. It's a good record. But after listening to it, I felt that Piet Sielck could have given a lot more creatively speaking. There are lost of cliches in the album, that will remind you songs from their previous releases. And the repetition before mentioned is not along the album, but along their career. Piet couldn't manage to deliver an album full of fresh, new and innovative ideas. He did his job and that's it, period.
And it has nothing to do with Kai Hansen's departure. Because, ironically, when Kai left the band, Iron Savior released one of their best albums "Condition Red". But Kai never contributed much to the band though, except for a couple of songs and solos. All the job has always been in Piet's hands.

The lyrics talk about Iron Savior usual topics: wars, machines, freedom, robots, heavy metal and stuff, except for the IRON SAVIOR that is not mentioned anywhere. The music? Don't get me wrong. Is a good album in general. But if you look back to what they've done in the past, "Battering Ram" sounds like a repetition of their previous releases.

The album combines high and low points. The highest ones would be "Time will tell", with a great chorus and "Riding free", very powerful and intense, which I think should have been the opening song of the album. Then, I'd recommend the last two songs "Machine World", a slow-paced song with cool riffs in the background, and "H.M.Powered Man", the album's hymn to heavy metal. On the other hand, you have songs, that shine for their lack of brilliance like "Wings of Deliverance", " Break the curse" or "Starchaser", sounding a little dull sometimes.

I'm the kind of fan that asks for more on every release, so that's why I had my expectations so up high after "Condition Red". The simplicity in the booklet, the fact that the album has only 10 songs (we are used to 12 or 13 songs; and the number of songs had nothing to do with the quality of the music; in this case the quality of compositions does not compensate the lack of songs) makes me feel a little disappointed, because it could have been better, and when I push play on my cd player, it hurts me to go directly to the fourth song "Time will tell". Could you imagine doing that in "Condition Red" or "Unification", missing anthems sich as "Titans of our time", or "Coming home"?. Of course not.

What does this album have that we hadn't heard before?.
I'm afraid "Battering Ram" sounds like a compilation of old riffs, with scarce moments of their remarkable brilliance. I take it as a huge bad step, giving them credit and hoping the next one to be a better album than this one. As I said before, I stay with "Condition Red" or "Unification".

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Battering Ram
Iron Savior
Manufacturer: Noise
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001ZWJEO
Release Date: 2004-06-17

Tracks:

Battering Ram
Stand Against The King
Tyranny Of Steel
Time Will Tell
Wings Of Delieverance
Break The Curse
Riding Free
Starchaser
Machine World
H.M. Powered Man
Call (Bonus Track)

Album Description

Limited digipak edition of the German power metal band's 2004 album. Ten tracks. Noise.

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Battering Ram
Iron Savior
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Interlude
Iron Savior
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ASIN: B000KN99BI
Release Date: 2007-02-27

Tracks:

Battering Ram
Stand Against the King
Tyranny of Steel
Time Will Tell
Wings of Deliverance
Break the Curse
Riding Free
Starchaser
Machine World
H.M. Powered Man

Average customer rating:

Battering Ram
Iron Savior
Manufacturer: King
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002RNB8E
Release Date: 2004-10-04

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the German power metal band's 2004 album includes one bonus track 'The Call'. Battering Ram is a pleasingly solid demonstration of Iron Savior's talents. Nexus.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

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Battering Ram
Iron Savior
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N0UXVS
Release Date: 2004-10-05

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