Cage will give Manowar a run for their money with this album as it features lots of spoken word interval pieces and some serious pounding metal music.

With bands like this and their lyrics you will either love or loathe them, take for example 'Christhammer', which follows the spoken intro proclaiming this hammer to be the one that nailed Christ to the cross and is now the weapon to destroy hell!

I love Manowar and Cage aren't bad but for me there are too many similar sounding songs and they vocals of Sean Peck are very Rob Halford sounding at times, although no-one can match the mighty metal god!

That said the title track and 'Legion Of Demons' are good, solid metal anthems. Musically they are very tight and the guitars unleash a metal fury and if you like Manowar, Primal Fear, HammerFall etc you should check this band out. But for me I will stick with Manowar!

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Review by Jason Ritchie