Satan's Host -
By The Hands of the Devil I'm not sure what to say, other than 'it kicks ass bro'. It kinda sorta sounds like a melodic
Black Metal record, except with clean vocals on it.
Kick ass clean vocals. This features Harry Conklin, who is without a doubt one of the greatest fucking singers ever in all of metal. (yes, that's right, up there with
Dio, Rob
Halford, John Arch, or whoever you can name) His
Voice is lower ranged then the glory days of the 1980's, but he gives a fantastic vocal performance here.
The actual music is very good too, the riffs mix in pretty well surprisingly well with Conklin's vocal melodies (even the tremolo riffing) and the leads are very nice. The drumming is pretty decent here too. I think the production is slightly too polished, but it's
Far better than the piece of fucking shit vacuum cleaner sound of
Metal From Hell.
