Unleashed - Sworn Allegiance
If you like death metal at all, even just a couple of bands, I think you should check this one out, because it's excellent. I stumbled across this one and on first listen I thought it was great, it makes an immediate impact on you, and now I hear that this isn't even supposed to be Unleashed's best CD. The first track, Winterland, is one of the highlights, the riff and lyrics have a black metal feel to them, ala Satyricon or Immortal. If you've seen the Lord of the Rings movies, as most of us have, you'll be familiar with the lyrics in Destruction (Of the Race of Men), it quotes some of the lines from the books and film, it's a great death metal song too with a good guitar solo.
Fans of Cannibal Corpse will be right at home with track three, Only The Dead, which has some gory lyrics. The difference is that you can actually understand them here, unlike the guttural growls of Chris Barnes or George Fisher. The song isn't as good as the opening two tracks though. The tracks on this album are very consistent, it's one that you want to put on again once you've finished listening to it. I Bring You Death is one of the best tracks, with a catchy riff and chorus, while One Night in Nazareth is one of my personal favourites, with some [...] lyrics about...I'll let you listen to it. The chorus is catchy and it's the track that will get in your head above all the rest if you listen to this all the way through.
Metalheads has lyrics that are different to any of the other songs, "Come on bang your heads, true metalheads!", and it's a great song to bang your head to. I don't consider myself a big fan of death metal but I loved this, so if you just like a bit of metal try this one out. There are some great solos throughout, it's heavy, and some of the songs are even catchy.
Stand-outs: Winterland, I Bring You Death, One Night in Nazareth