“On Your Knees for Metal” is one of those mandatory songs about how great the genre is, and the music sells it convincingly. Thankfully Midnight Priest knows their limitations hooks are centered around the actual range of the vocals as to not strain them into places they can’t reach. The theatrical vocals aren’t at the level of Halford or the King, but they’re a lot of fun nonetheless with an oft-used falsetto and a decent midrange clean. Apart from a wonderfully campy super-spooky haunted house organ intro, this whole record is made of catchy metal tracks that rarely breach the four-minute mark and overstuff themselves with cool riffs in the vein of Judas Priest and classic Mercyful Fate with the focus on their simpler, catchier stuff and standout soaring guitar solos. This year the ground decided to scream “ Midnight Priest” at me-a bit rude, but I can’t argue with the results.Īggressive Hauntings is the type of record which wants to take the length and punch of Judas Priest’s “Electric Eye,” Mercyful Fate’s “Gypsy,” and Iron Maiden’s “Purgatory” and make a whole record of it. I like focus and consistency, so a whole record of quick and quality heavy metal songs is always something I keep an ear to the ground for. Wanting more songs like “Prowler” doesn’t take away from the greatness of “Alexander the Great”-they’re just doing different things, and it’s not a zero-sum game anyhow. While I have a soft spot for the epic and possess the attention span to love a long record if it justifies the quantity with quality (like Tyr’s Hel), sometimes brevity in heavy metal is refreshing.
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