VAULT NO MORE ESCAPE 1983 SEALED HEAVY METAL
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DOMESTIC $ 5 PLUS $ 1 INTERNATIONAL $ 21 PLUS $ 7 This band reminds me of Legend (US), except much better They attain the incredibly amazing epic greatness of “The Golden Bell” with no boring instrumentals bogging down the music. Both bands have drummers that are all over the place, and there’s even a drum solo on “The Gambler. But this one is actually interesting reminding me of the introduction to “Painkiller” or “Overkill” but longer. It’s the combination of metal aesthetics combined with proto-metal and 70’s hard rock. Vault’s tenor vocalist is less mellow and warm sounding than Legend’s however he goes from a light, almost feeble-sounding lilt, to a powerful bellow. This is in clear and undoubtedly purposeful evidence in “Leader of the Pack”, where the softer, almost space-rock sounding verses explode into a powerful heavier chorus. Sometimes he even does feral shrieks and growls, as on the title track. The singer’s voice also has this hollow quality to it, as if he’s singing in a cave, which I’m not sure is intentional and might just be a product of the production; either way, it serves to add an other worldly air to it. Like a lot of bands in the early eighties that didn’t belong to any solid metal scene, Vault’s metal is mixed heavily with 70` hard rock and early 80`s metal. Vault is comfortable in this combination, and even flaunts the apparent contradiction at times. A good example would be the rock riff that comes in towards the end of the opener, “Suicide”. It at first seems incongruously happy and bouncy amongst the otherwise appropriately dark riffs and subject matter, but it’s only played twice before they twist it into a much darker version of itself. Seems to me that this was done very much on purpose, perhaps to emphasize how suicidal depression can cause things that previously brought happiness to pale. Another example would be in “Leader of the Pack”, which combines softer almost space-rock-sounding verses with the pounding chorus. In contrast with that is “On Forever”, where the metal-sounding ominous intro turns into a loud, foot-stomping rock bit (try not to flail some appendage about during the chorus); that quiets down again into a softer section, which finally explodes into a very metal solo, with some NWOBHM-style minor-key dual guitar harmonizing in the middle for good measure. Besides that genre mixing, the band has a strange habit of throwing in some new bit, right when you think you’ve heard all a song has to offer, such as on “Desire”; a really cool riff gets thrown in partway through the guitar solo (all the guitar solos on the album are excellent, by the way), totally changing the song from a bouncy, happier rocking number into a much darker metal one. The song basically splits right down the middle at that point, without any of the riffs from the first half cropping up in the second, or even any of the feel; it’s a disconcerting effect, as if you went into the guitar solo in one song and came out in another. Another strength of the band is their emotional versatility, ranging from the opener, “Suicide”, which is one of the darkest songs I’ve ever heard, including anything from doom metal, to “The Gambler”, which is upbeat and dirty, with its main riff sounding like a slightly more complex Motorhead, and the drums that sound a lot like Philthy Animal Taylor’s on “Overkill”. They do a lot on the album, and nothing poorly. No More Escape really doesn’t have any weak tracks on it Quality album which is hard to find Copies run about $ 50 TO $ 85 for a decent copy. sound clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPKHxWrnv5A
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