Drakkar
Quest For Glory

THE REVIEW

It was the summer of 1998, Italian (and European) metal magazines were filled with full pages of power metal album advertisements. All the bands that were inspired by Manowar, Helloween, and Iron Maiden released at least one album.

For Italy, it was a rather fortunate period as two or three power metal bands had made it big in Europe. Riding the wave of these, I let myself be convinced by the album advertisement on the last page of a famous magazine.

The album contains 11 third-rate heavy metal tracks. It starts with a keyboard intro "Welcome on board" which makes us imagine the "drakkar" in its mythological adventures being swept up by the winds of nearby dragons flapping their wings.

The first tracks, Coming From The Past, Dragonheart, and Under the Armor, adhere to all the power metal song standards: clockwork guitars, epic melodies and glorious refrains, war choruses, and a singer mimicking Kiske-Adams.

Follow The Prophet starts with a series of arpeggios and is appreciated for some interesting choruses and the good melodic structure of the solos present.

By the sixth song, the yawn is big. Our guys attempt to make a 13-minute piece where dispersion and constant banality reign, the voice starts becoming irritating, and so follow all the other tracks in the same manner.

I recommend listening only to true metallers.