First thing’s first-context and impressions. I’ll spare you the googling-Megatropolis is the sixth studio album released by Iron Savior. It was released in 2007. So what am I doing reviewing it? Here’s the thing. This year, the band released a partially re-recorded and remixed version of the original album. Why? Probably money. But the lead guitarist and singer, Piet Sielck, has been quoted as saying “AFM has informed me that our “Megatropolis” album is sold out, so the idea came up to rework the material and release a new edition. Being unhappy with the album for a long time, I am absolutely delighted to get a chance to correct my errors. The new mix will carry all Iron Savior trademarks such as big choir backings and lots of multi timbral vocals. I left all these goodies out at the time to make the album more distinguishable from my former second band Savage Circus… a fatal error, which I finally can correct now.
Power metal, sci-fi themes, sexy-ass riffs, fantastic laser beams and intergalactic heroes charging at the sight of injustice and evil; what more could a nerdy metalhead want? Iron Savior has been at the space sentinel business for more than 20 years now, and like that go-to old shoe or jeans, always delivers the goods quality-wise. ‘Kill Or Get Killed’, yet another studio album by Piet Sielck (vocals, guitars) and his fellow space marines Jan-Sören Eckert (bass), Joachim “Piesel” Küstner (guitars) and newcomer Patrick Klose (drums), comes as a statement that it’s really, really hard to destroy the most resilient, enduring and stubborn metal of them all: the Teutonic…
It took almost 20 years for German power metal masters IRON SAVIOR to release their first Live DVD/CD "Live At The Final Frontier". The band, founded in 1996 by Piet Sielck, Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray) and Thomen Stauch (ex-Blind Guardian), has unleashed eight studio albums since then and has just recently issued a reworked version (remixed, remastered, partly re-recorded) of their “Megatropolis” album, titled “Megatropolis 2.0”. Now with their first ever DVD, IRON SAVIOR will satisfy their fans again completely: “Live At The Final Frontier” includes the band’s recent hometown concert (Hamburg, January 2015) on DVD and 2CDs (as package in Digipak format). Additional bonus (video) material (backstage/concert) rounds off this extensive package, which is a must-have for all IRON SAVIOR fans!
Following their latest, much-acclaimed offering, Reforged - Ironbound (released in 2022 via AFM Records), Hamburg-based power metal act Iron Savior has announced the release of a brand new studio album!
The band's upcoming album will feature a wide range of influences from hard rock to pop, all calibrated to heavy metal standards thanks to those typical Iron Savior virtues.
With Reforged - Machine World, Iron Savior will close the chapter of their legendary Reforged series.
Band founder Piet Sielck has re-recorded the classics from the noise era in Hamburg's Powerhouse Studio, bringing the series to an impressive conclusion. The new recordings of anthems such as "Machine World", "Eye of the World" and "Contortions of Time" shine with their modern production and perfectly emphasise the band's unbroken energy and versatility. For Sielck, it was ‘a celebration to dive back into the old days and make the songs fit for the new millennium’.
Reforged - Machine World is a must for every fan, whether long-time or newly enamoured!
Get the final chapter of this epic journey - Machine World!