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Riffmaster General: T-shirt. Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Ultra rare 1998. Heavy Metal
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Status: Unknown
Formed: 1998
Genre: Heavy Metal
Type: Full-length
Release date: September 14th, 2001
Catalog ID:MQ001
Label: Manqueller
Format: CD
1. The G-Men 02:08
2. Bloody Vengeance (I Am Destroyer) 05:33
3. Fear Before the Fall 06:11
4. These Scars 03:51
5. ‘Til Tomorrow Dies 06:41
6. Promised Land 05:59
7. The Wraith 06:39
8. Surrender 10:06
9. Manqueller 04:53
10. The Eternal Heart 04:33
11. We Like That 02:59
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The best heavy metal act ever to come from the Emerald Island.
Riffmaster General, in addition to having one of the best semi-humorous names among the traditional heavy metal acts, play pretty interesting, atmospheric heavy metal. Their technical level isn’t anything exceptional, but they have an idea or two in their songwriting, and I believe they have achieved what they were aiming for. The eleven heavy rocking songs all create an atmosphere that leaves the listener wanting and waiting for more.
Every single song on the album is written in a clever way, and every single one of them is dedicated to building up an expecting tension. The instrumental opening, ‘The G-Men’, gives the album a nice start with a simple riff that develops for two minutes and then turns into the first real track. The first song, ‘Bloody Vengeance’, keeps building the atmosphere, promising, increasing the tension and making the listener anxiously wait for the big, thrashing explosion in the end of the song, the heavy headbanging moment when every knob gets turned to eleven and the speakers explode.
The third track, ‘Fear Before the Fall’, does the same. The restrained, ominously whispered vocals, the slowish guitars saving the fury for the end of the song, the expecting feeling. The pressure is mounting, the brain looks forward to the incredible flogging earthquake, the safety valves almost let the steam out. They have an incredible way of building up the tension.
The album is very enjoyable in its own, original way. The atmosphere is probably what they wanted to create, in addition to being to an extent the product of the vocalists semi-whispering style. This band can certainly be enjoyed, and The Trust Betrayed is worth buying.