Saviours are one of those bands that are hard to pin down into one category, they have plenty of metal and stoner included for good measure, the nearest comparison would be High On Fire or even the first release by Sweden’s Kayser. Starting with a track like ‘The Mountain’, there’s a doom monolith brewing quickly eroded by the brash delivery and tempo increase of the heavy stoner approach mixing things up, simply because they do and they can. The vocals are razor sharp, the sound is pretty powerful, the songs, well they go to all sorts of places, like the solo of the aforementioned opener that keeps your adrenaline pumping, head swaying and angst truly in tune with every note this band produce.
Taking things a touch more doom ridden, even to stages of Cathedral’s immense back catalogue, ‘Flesh of Fire’ hits the ground running. Or if you switch to the heavy rock Motorhead inspiration of the next one ‘Devil’s Crown’, there’s something everyone can embrace here and also ‘The Best Remains’ has a similar level of carnage about it too.
‘Burning Shrine’ has a tone that feels more epic and is delivered with a powerful embrace of energy (especially the guitar break 3 minutes in followed by a twin guitar assault of metal proportions). There is much credibility here, much to shout loud about. Saviours are just one of those bands that never cease to amaze or disappoint me with each passing release. It has been a relatively long break between albums, but those four years following ‘Death’s Procession’ are certainly worth the wait.
(8.5/10 Paul Maddison)
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