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Tarot
Suffer Our Pleasures
It is an affront to my metal pride to find that Tarot have been floating around since the 80's and I have not heard of them prior to this release. I felt the same way when I discovered Blind Guardian in the late to mid 90's (though BG was a much larger discovery.)
This disc has a very dated 80's/early 90's sound to it, take that how you will. I personally like a nice 80's sound if it is done well. This has a nice modern production sound to it though, so it's not totally steeped in yester-year.
At times this almost reminds me of a slightly heavier Dio. Heh. Cool. *devil horns*
Man, this really takes me back in the day. I'm going to have to look into getting some of their back catalog to see what that is like.
I think of this as power metal, but not like power metal of today. More like Running Wild of old. I like this a lot. The first time I listened to this I didn't really like it because of how dated and unoriginal it sounded. But upon further listening I believe my initial impression was wrong, maybe I was in a bad mood, because now I really am getting into this, stereotypical of 80's metal as it may be. I'm from the 80's myself so I can appreciate it.
Thumbs up dude. Check it out.
TRACKLIST:
I Rule Pyre of Gods Rider of the Last Day Follow the Blind Undead Son Of Time and Dust From the Void Convulsions From the Shadows Painless
