Originally written for Powerplay Magazine.
November 2012

Starting in a typically furious fashion for a thrash album, Reign of Fury’s debut is a surprisingly varied offering, littered with small surprises throughout. Despite the sheer intensity and speed of the bulk of the band’s riffs, Reign of Fury showcase a fantastic penchant for melody throughout World Detonation. The first introduction to this is early on, in the brilliantly melodious guitar lead break in the otherwise manic ‘Infernal Conflict’. Perhaps the band’s biggest assets however are the exceptionally uncharacteristic vocals of Bison Steed. Steed’s delivery sounds like a grittier Jeff Scott Soto and provides a brilliant complement to the extremely metallic speed riffery of the music.

Technicality aside, Reign of Fury are rather skilled songwriters, penning lengthy thrash numbers that actually manage to stay engaging throughout. ‘Heaven Waits – Hell Takes’ opens with a wonderfully serene acoustic passage before electric bombast takes over and forcefully drags the song in to thrashier territories. Somehow, the band keep things fresh throughout the eight minute track, even delving slightly into grind at one point, allowing Reign of Fury to really show off their wide array of metal colours.

There’s simply something rather mesmerising about Reign of Fury’s debut . Whilst borrowing many elements from the genre’s greats, they are clearly much more than just your run of the mill thrash band. This is unquestionably due to their sense of melody being so well weaved in that it does nothing to diminish the intensity of the music. A brilliant first record.

Recent accolades:
I AM I win ‘Best breakthrough act’  on Metalmouth.net
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Nominated for ‘Best New Band of the Year’ at the Pure Rawk Awards on March 8th.   http://www.purerawk.com/awards

‘EVENT HORIZON‘ 
The band’s debut album ‘Event Horizon‘ was written and produced by Theart and guitarist Jacob Ziemba and mixed and mastered by Roland Grapow (Helloween/Masterplan) and is a storming blend of melodies and rock, riffs and metal all interlaced with ZP’s soaring vocals. The album was released worldwide in December 2012.

Their debut video of their first single ‘Silent Genocide’ taken from the album is the perfect example of all these and it’s already proving to be a massive hit worldwide, gaining huge numbers of views in a very short space of time (over 138,000 views to date!).

The band are currently available for interviews, please contact me if you’d like to get one organised.

Z P Theart – vocals
Jacob Ziemba – guitars
Jake Thorsen – guitars
Neil Salmon – bass
Phil Martini – drums

‘Event Horizon’ is available worldwide via Plastichead Distribution.

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Reign of Fury
‘World Detonation’
Mosh Tuneage

We’re up to number 13 in my Top 20 of 2012 daily countdown and the holder of this position is both a late entry and a surprise one to boot. This slot belongs to the UK’s Reign of Fury with their debut album ‘World Detonation’.

Reign of Fury have taken on the big boys of thrash this year and, thanks to a fabulous blend of sharp riffs, memorable NWOBHM-reminiscent melodies, twin-guitar harmonies, engaging choruses and a demonstrable 80s Bay Area attitude, they’ve come out on top in the Mansion of Much Metal.

I really enjoyed ‘World Detonation’ with its apparent care-free and breezy outer shell and serious, focused core because the results are fantastically epic, fist-pumpingly powerful and will knock your socks off at one hundred paces.

If you’ve missed any of my previous posts, they can be found here:
Day 7 (Norwegian progressive black metal)
Day 6 (Prog Rock/Metal)
Day 5 (Melodic Hard Rock)
Day 4 (Symphonic Folk black metal)
Day 3 (Modern Death/Thrash Metal)
Day 2 (Melodic Prog Metal)
Day 1 (Dark/Doom Metal)

Website: http://www.reignoffury.co.uk/

by RJ Bayley

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All the greats start somewhere, and BLOODSTOCK is proud to be the champion of new talent, taking the cause of introducing new bands to the metal masses. To play on BOA’s NEW BLOOD stage, bands will usually enter via the METAL 2 THE MASSES initiative, but this latest wave of additions is a bunch of bands Bloodstock felt were so good, they just had to perform this year.

The magnificent seven come in the form of female fronted melodic metallers GONE TIL WINTER, hardcore rock’n'rollers HURON, modern metalheads and Download festival veterans FALLEN FATE, midlands thrashers REIGN OF FURY, UK power-metallers DREAMCATCHER, balls-out trad metallers REFLECTIONS IN EXILE and grim black metallers INFERNAL CREATION.

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