{"id":16681,"date":"2016-12-12T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16681"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:50","slug":"album-review-freedom-call-master-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16681","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Freedom Call &#8211; Master of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Freedom Call \u2013 Master of Light<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date:<\/strong> November 11, 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: SPV Steamhammer<\/p>\n<p>Let me just cut to the chase here. Why is it that most power metal is so musically great while the lyrics tend to sound like they were written by a 13 year old kid who spends all his breathing hours playing Dungeons and Dragons? Allow me to give you an example:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Metal is for everyone, stronger than the law.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> A band of steel eternally, a union of the strong.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t Manowar already write this song like 30 times? I just don\u2019t get it. Maybe it\u2019s part of the escapism or something but in all honesty, when I hear crap like this, it\u2019s no wonder why people make fun of metal fans. When I think of the late, great Ronnie James Dio, who was basically the reigning king of epic metal anthems, even at his cheesiest there was still a level of sincerity. Listening to Freedom Call, I get no sense of sincerity and I just have to shake my head as they deliver song after song of contrived, played out, insincere metal clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vy4CQOyQ-0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the deal. Musically, Freedom Call is monstrously talented. These guys have the chops, the epic metal production, and the singer is absolutely mind blowing. The $1,000,000 question though is why would a band waste so much talent on such shitty songs? Freedom Call is proof that anyone can write heavy metal songs but not everyone can do it well and with integrity. I\u2019m not sure just how serious Freedom Call takes themselves but for me, I would file them along with Steel Panther as one big ass joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom Call \u2013 Master of Light Release Date: November 11, 2016 Label: SPV Steamhammer Let me just cut to the chase here. Why is it that most power metal is so musically great while the lyrics tend to sound like they were written by a 13 year old kid who spends all his breathing hours playing Dungeons and Dragons? Allow me to give you an example: Metal is for everyone, stronger than the law. A band of steel eternally, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1691,1603],"class_list":["post-16681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-freedom-call","tag-spv-steamhammer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19676,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16681\/revisions\/19676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}