MANIMAL Purgatorio (Limited Blue Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve)

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A band needs plenty of exceptional compositional talent to record an album that sounds monolithic despite the fact that the individual songs ooze a wide range of different details and special features.
Since its foundation in 2001, MANIMAL from Gothenburg have successfully mastered this feat for the third time. Despite their loyalty to traditional influences their previous albums, The Darkest Room (2009) and Trapped In The Shadows (2015), were prime examples of modern and trend-setting power metal characterised by musical enthusiasm and new ideas. Their latest recording Purgatorio sees the four-piece take their outstanding qualities to the brink of perfection: Throughout their nine new songs the musicians pull out all the stops, presenting a number of different tempos and atmospheres and impressing with chorus parts that have true anthem potential.
“Our goal has always been to write songs that we love and believe in. The challenge is to make a song with strong hooks without being too predictable. It`s just a bonus when we realize that people around the world seem to have the same good taste in music that we have,” jokes frontman Samuel Nyman.

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Tracklisting:

Side A:
01 Black Plague
02 Purgatorio
03 Manimalized
04 Spreading The Dread
05 Traitor

Side B:
06 Behind Enemy Lines
07 Denial
08 Edge Of Darkness
09 The Fear Within


Line-Up:
Samuel Nyman (Vocals)
Henrik Stenroos (Guitars)
Kenny Boufadene (Bass)
André Holmqvist (Drums)

- strong third studio album by Swedish heavy/power metal band MANIMAL
- traditional but also up-to-date, riff-driven sound which partly reminds of Judas Priest's "Painkiller" era
- mastered at Fascination Streets studios, Sweden (Kreator, Symphony X, Opeth)
- European tours with Orden Ogan and Firewind in 2016 increased Manimal's popularity
- very positive reception by press and fans alike for MANIMAL's two previous albums