FAITHFUL BREATH - Skol - [FULL ALBUM 1985]

DeathRider Doom, May 18th, 2009 🔘Faithful Breath is another one of those good, but not overly amazing obscure 80’s heavy hetal bands. Their ninth official release however, gives them a far greater catalogue than many bands that fall into this grouping. Skol is a fairly strong album with a variety of songs it including a sailor/pirate anthem as the title song, with smatterings of speed metal throughout ’Start it Up’ is an excellent opening track, with a riff to kick things off that reminds me of late 80’s Dokken (Read: Back for the Attack). The structure of the vocals and indeed the vocalist himself sound very much like Accept, as do the tempo and drum mixing, with a punchy kick that could be likened to any Accept number of the same period. Double Dealer’, another strong number, is a speed-metal track with tonnes of Accept over tones, and by this stage in the album (track two), you may realize that this band is incredibly influenced by Accept (and why not). But this is