Heavier Than Heaven

With the huge success of their previous album “The Number of the Beast”, the band was off the hook and subsequently released “Piece of Mind” the very next year. The second album of the “Golden years”, the Record is a time less and awe-inspiring master piece.

This is the first album to feature the band’s new drummer Nicko McBrain who showcases his super skills in the first of few seconds of the record opener “Where Eagles Dare” and he keeps you wondering why he is as good as Clive Burr. The album’s theme wasn’t preset, but the lyrical approach showed the band’s predilection for film and fiction. The album consists of nine songs out of which five are power-packed and are an out of the world experience to any metal-head. “The Trooper”, is a default in all of the band’s live performances and an overplayed song is a killer nonetheless. “Revelations”, a forerunner to the more famous “Powerslave” of their next album, is a breathtaking song and is solely composed by the front man Bruce Dickinson. The album single “Flight of the Icarus” is an uncomplicated song with one of band’s best ever solos. The finisher and the epic song of the album “To Tame a Land” is an outstanding track which is highly underrated, it is definitely one of the better sounding tracks of the record. Surely one of the classiest albums ever produced and mastered, this took the band into new heights and their greatness then was inexplicable.

The band disturbed is just 3 albums old and the fourth self-produced album (indestructible) they come out with is so heavy both lyrically and musically. This album released in the year 2008 is the darkest album the band has ever come out with till date. Indestructible boasts 12 tracks each one very different and heavier than the previous one. The first single from the album ‘indestructible’ is a song than is written to encourage and motivate soldiers, essentially to curb the fear of facing wars. The vocalist David Draiman adopts the required aggressive style to match the theme of the song. The song ‘Inside the Fire’ is about suicide and is lyrically very dark and deals with the suicide of someone close to the vocalist. The guitar riffs are really heavy and guitarist Dan Donegan makes the guitar sing. The flow throughout the song is mind numbing. The tempo is maintained throughout the whole album. The song is very deep in semantics and is very disturbing, just what the band’s name suggests. Then there are two other beautiful songs called ‘Perfect Insanity’ and ‘Divide’. Both these tracks are mirror images of each other (in the positive sense, i.e. they follow a similar pattern). ‘Perfect Insanity’ has very rapid riffs and double bass drumming and a superb solo. The same goes to ‘Divide’. The album does not fall short of expectations and sure does satisfy the faithful. This album is one crazy demon and is a must for all heavy metal fanatics’ playlist.