Nuclear Fire

Nuclear Fire

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Theatrical 2001 album from the Speed Metal band on Nuclear Blast featuring eleven tracks with 16-page booklet containing photos of the band & song lyrics. Nuclear Blast. 2001.

Nuclear Fire,Primal Fear,Nuclear Blast Americ,British Metal,Heavy Metal,Metal,Pop,Power Metal,Rock,Speed Metal

Serenity in Fire
Average customer rating:

Kataklysm can kick all other metal bands butts

Some of the best to offer

Absolutely Brutal and In Your Face!!

Top 10!!

they definitely live up to their name!

Serenity in Fire
Kataklysm
Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast Americ
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music
Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Shadows & Dust

In the Arms of Devastation

The Prophecy

Epic: The Poetry of War

War of Attrition

ASIN: B0001D0FS8
Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

Ambassador of Pain
Resurrected
As I Slither
For All Our Sins
Night They Returned
Serenity in Fire
Blood on the Swans
10 Seconds from the End
Tragedy I Preach
Under the Bleeding Sun

Album Description

Canada's Kataklysm have engulfed the death metal scene by releasing six highly influential albums over the last seven years. 'Serenity In Fire' is the band's most gripping & accessible album to date. The album features ten tracks & a guest appearance from metal icon Peter Tagtgren (Hypocrisy, Abyss Studios). Nuclear Blast. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

Kataklysm can kick all other metal bands butts.......2007-03-21

There is not really another band out there that I can compare Kataklysm to. Very fast, but not to the point where it doesn't sound like music. Same with the drums, very fast but not to the point that it sounds like a bunch of marbles falling on a drum. A must check out for any metal head. Best song in my opinion is "Blood on the Swans".

Some of the best to offer.......2006-08-08

In one word this album is sick! I played this album to some friends who had once abandoned these guys. They quickly perked up to the searing riffs, killer drum beats and demonic vocals of this "diamond in the rough" death metal band. This album made me truly appreciate what is good in the dark genre. All the songs in this CD make for a grand tour de force of brutality. The self titled "Serenity in Fire" remains my personal favorite. A tour through the pits of oblivion should not be complete without this album playing in the background!

Absolutely Brutal and In Your Face!!.......2006-06-28

I recently got into Kataklysm over a month ago when I bought "Serenity in Fire", and I have to say, this is some of the most brutal and in your face death metal I've heard in my life. This album just crushes and destroys absolutely everything in it's path. The musicianship on here is absolutely awesome. Brutal vocals, angry guitars, and ohhhh man those sick insane machine-gun-like drums. Maurizio Iacono's vocals are very awesome ranging from brutal growls to frightening screams. Guitarist J-F Daginais shreds and tears throughout with angry crushing riffs that rips through your bones like a buzzsaw. Stephane Barbe has some good bass lines you can hear as well. Drummer Martin Maurais absolutely slaughters on this album. His machine-gun-like double bass drumming is absolutely sick and insane. If you don't believe me, just listen to the drum solo on track seven "Blood on the Swans". It will have you feeling like you've been hit by a semi truck, just totally awesome!! Other standouts include "The Ambassador of Pain", "For All Our Sins" (which features guest vocals by Peter Tagtgren of Hypocrisy), "10 Seconds From The End", "The Resurrected", "Serenity in Fire", and "Under the Bleeding Sun".
Jeremy's song ratings:
1. The Ambassador of Pain - Great opener. 5/5
2. The Resurrected - 5/5
3. As I Slither - 5/5
4. For All Our Sins - 5/5
5. The Night They Returned - 5/5
6. Serenity in Fire - 5/5
7. Blood on the Swans - Love that drum solo in the begining. 5/5
8. 10 Seconds From The End - 5/5
9. The Tragedy I Preach - 5/5
10. Under the Bleeding Sun - Great closer, has a nice guitar solo BTW. 5/5

Overall highly recommended for fans of Vader, Deicide, Cryptopsy, Nile, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Hate Eternal, Cannibal Corpse, Malevolent Creation or even Hypocrisy, At The Gates, and Dark Tranquility for that mattter. Kataklysm are without a doubt the TRUE voices of metal. Bottom Line: Buy this album now.

Top 10!!.......2005-12-19

Success indeed. the band gets better and better. RECOMENDED!!!!!!! Speed, HEAVY riff, great drummer, what else can be said.

they definitely live up to their name!.......2005-05-20

Kataklysm's Serenity In Fire is definitely poised to set the metal world on fire. every song on this album is perfectly executed and they play like they mean it! standout tracks? the whole album is standout. as for Fred Durst's Numba One Fann, this is real metal, not that stupid a** Limp Bizkit you keep touting as number one! face it! Limp Bizkit sucks!

Average customer rating:

Awesome from start to Finish!
Tied With Black Sun For The Best Of Primal Fear!
Another band that receives far too much dirt
It's Nuclear, Mr. President... Not "Nucular," Nuclear!!!
A good, solid Judas Priest-styled metal album

Nuclear Fire
Primal Fear
Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast Americ
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

British Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Thrash & Speed Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Black Sun
Devil's Ground
Jaws of Death
Primal Fear
Seven Seals

ASIN: B000056AQG
Release Date: 2001-02-06

Tracks:

Angel In Black
Kiss Of Death
Back From Hell
Now Or Never
Fight The Fire
Eye Of An Eagle
Bleed For Me
Nuclear Fire
Red Rain
Fire On The Horizon
Living For Metal
Bonus Track

Album Description

Theatrical 2001 album from the Speed Metal band on Nuclear Blast featuring eleven tracks with 16-page booklet containing photos of the band & song lyrics. Nuclear Blast. 2001.

Album Details

Includes Bonus Track 'iron Fist in a Velvet Glove'.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome from start to Finish!.......2007-02-16

If you like Judas Priest and you loved their Painkiller release, this cd is for you.

I can't call them clones as that would be unfair to their obvious song writing talent and yes these guys can write!!

This cd is true metal heaven from start to finish. It's got it all, killer riffs, amazing melodies, bitchin' solo's, tight rhythms section and truly inspiring vocals.

A true must have for any metalhead!!

Tied With Black Sun For The Best Of Primal Fear!.......2006-09-05

I really like this album. It is heavy, bright and energizing, as opposed to boring and flawed like Seven Seals. All of the band members do a fine job delivering great music to our ears on this album. I think Nuclear Fire and Black Sun are Primal Fear's best. But listen to some samples, and you decide.

Another band that receives far too much dirt.......2005-03-03

I can't say that I own the third album by Germany's "metal troopers" Primal Fear, 2001's 'Nuclear Fire,' but I can say this: Ralf, Mat, and the rest of the guys receive way too much undeserved dirt from people. In my opinion, me owning their fourth album, 'Black Sun,' their style may not be that original (e.g. opening track "Angel In Black," which I have seen a pretty tight video clip for on Launch, has a riff and vocal style similar to that of Judas Priest's "Painkiller,) but at least they are always able to come up with great new guitar parts without recycling old ones. And a few recycled riffs never hurt now and again...do they? Anyways, I have sampled this album enough to give it a perfect review, and once I almost bought this instead of 'Black Sun' (I was also looking with a sharp eye at their latest, 2004's 'Devil's Ground.') Anyways, I recommend Primal Fear to metalheads everywhere, but above all, I recommend them to fans of Helloween, Gamma Ray, Sinner, Iced Earth, and Judas Priest.

It's Nuclear, Mr. President... Not "Nucular," Nuclear!!!.......2003-11-16

The sheer volume (in every sense of the term) of high quality, precision-crafted heavy metal currently pouring out of Germany never ceases to amaze me. Year after year, obscure but highly talented acts such as Helloween, Sinner, Pink Cream 69 and their countless contemporaries have continued to inundate the world with a steady outpouring of highly melodic, dramatic and painstakingly well-played metal. Right in the melodramatic thick of it all has been Primal Fear, the highly (and rightfully) successful side-project-turned-full-time-band of bassist Mat Sinner (Sinner) and vocalist extraordinaire Ralf Scheepers (Gamma Ray, Tyran Pace). Tagged by many critics (in both praise and derision) as a modern-day, Continental European version of England's near-legendary Judas Priest, this gathering of high-decibel over-achievers has been around since `98, yet have already unleashed this, their third album (how many bands can you name, in this day and age, that manage to crank out one album per year?). In any case, "Nuclear Fire" is a nicely packaged collection of considerably heavy, often fast tunes which, again, recall the classic works of Judas Priest and other fine vintage metal acts. And if popular culture has led you to think of metal as a bunch of loud, noisy, simplistic, detuned riffs banged out over a hip-hop beat by guys who appear to have their pants around their knees, then, in the words of a certain well-known metal anthem, you've got another thing coming! Punctuated by sprawling, mechanically precise drum fills and Ralf Scheepers' sinus-straining, almost operatic wail, "Nuclear Fire" starts off with a bang ("Angel In Black") and never lets up, save for the almost mellow tracks "Now Or Never" and "Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove" (I'm still confused by that one). Some of the more intense tunes approach the feel of vintage Metallica, though most of these tracks lean towards the more melodic European style of metal than the punishing mid-tempo grooves of the modern American variety. Another key element of the band's sound that deserves mentioning is Stefan Leibing and Henny Wolter's tasty, intense and melodic guitar solos (lots of jaw-dropping harmonized lines!), which serve as the icing on the cake for these very traditional, yet well-conceived songs. My only complaint would be the overabundance of those faster, edgier tunes. It's not that these tracks aren't up to the compositional standards of the rest of the album (or that I can't handle the heat), there are simply too many of them, diminishing the album's fun factor somewhat. But despite such shortcomings, I've got to commend these guys for their hard work, because their music, by it's very nature, is immeasurably more skillful and musical than that of 98% of the heavy bands currently hogging the limelight is likely to ever be.

Update: "Black Sun" has been released since, and although some say otherwise, I'd say "Nuclear Fire" remains the band's heaviest, most aggressive album to date.

A good, solid Judas Priest-styled metal album.......2003-10-19

Nuclear Fire (2001). Primal Fear's third album.

If you're a fan of 80s styled heavy metal and you grew up in the 90s in the US, chances are that you believe that the metal scene all but vanished since the dawn of the 90s. Not necessarily the case. Over in Europe, the metal scene continued on with several subgenres, namely thrash, power, and death metal. Most of these newer heavy metal bands borrowed influences from metal legends of the last generation such as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and others. Primal Fear, a thrash/power metal band which formed in 1998 is no exception.

Make no mistake, Primal Fear is a band which takes its influence HEAVILY from Painkiller-era Judas Priest, with a few Helloween qualities thrown in for good measure. These guys are not clones of Priest by any means because they infuse their own energy into each of the rockers here, but at the same time, if you were a fan of some of the heavier Priest albums you will find yourself in familiar territory with Primal Fear. Like Priest, PF employs a twin guitar attack during the solos. The most noteworthy thing though is how vocalist Ralf Scheefers (formerly of Gamma Ray) sounds almost EXACTLY like Rob Halford. To me, he should have been the Priest replacement vocalist, not Tim Ripper Owens. Think of Ralf as a more youthful Halford who at times can scream higher than his predecessor, though Rob is still the better vocalist. It's not all blind praise to Priest though because in an interview with Rob Halford once, he even stated that he was good friends with Primal Fear and believes them to be a strong continuing force in metal. How does the third album fare? Lets see:

1) Angel In Black- GREAT OPENER. It's got a cool intro and then breaks into a fast paced anthemic rocker. 9/10

2) Kiss Of Death- Awesome song, although I do agree with another reviewer who says that the intro sounds EXACTLY like the intro to the Priest song 'Hell Patrol' from Painkiller. Excellent chorus. One of the many album highlights. 10/10

3) Back From Hell- Fastest and heaviest track on the album. Scheefers really belts out the high vocals on this one. Powerful, yet not the best. 8/10

4) Now Or Never- This track is more mid-paced. Catchy and noteworthy. 9/10

5) Fight The Fire- DEFINITELY A WINNER. This song really takes advantage of Metallica-like riffing and creates a thrash standout with excellent guitar solos. 10/10

6) Eye Of An Eagle- Anthemic and powerful track. This one is simply a good headbanger tune. 9/10

7) Bleed For Me- There's only one ballad on this album thankfully, but fortunately this one is an excellent doom-&-gloom type ballad. Ralf proves that he can sing in a more melodic tone as opposed to always using his scream like in the other tracks. GOOD TRACK. 10/10

8) Nuclear Fire- The title track is fast just like JP's song 'Ram It Down'. Complete with an excellent intro, chorus, and twin guitar attack. Everything you can ask for in a faster metal song. Another phenomenal rocker. 10/10

9) Red Rain- Good old 80s styled thrasher similar to the Priest song 'Between The Hammer & The Anvil'. One of my favorites, though not as standout as some of the other tracks. 9/10

10) Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove- (my copy of Nuclear Fire does not contain this bonus track. I haven't heard it, so I won't review it.)

11) Fire On The Horizon- A good, but not great fast rocker. Has a decent solo section towards the end though. 8/10

12) Living For Metal- AWESOME METAL ANTHEM! The album closes with this tribute to metal music. They don't mention it in the lyrics, but they are implying their story of growing up listening to JP, and then forming their own metal band in the vein of their heroes. Very catchy, perhaps my favorite PF song. 10/10

While these guys are anything but revolutionary, they do play their music well and with great passion. PF is a band who will NEVER sell out to another type of music. They will only continue playing what they're good at. The real rating for Nuclear Fire is 4.5 stars, though Amazon doesn't allow it (AARGH). If you are a huge fan of JP or Rob's newer band Halford and want more of the same kind of music, PF is the perfect fix. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO ANY FAN OF HEAVY METAL.

Nuclear Fire (+2 Bonus Tracks)
Average customer rating:
Nuclear Fire (+2 Bonus Tracks)
Primal Fear
Manufacturer: Jvc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005A1ER
Release Date: 2000-12-16