For those unaware, after 2020’s Destination Hell, the North German metal rockers BLACK HAWK release their brand-new album Soulkeeper via Fastball Music with ten driving heavy metal anthems clearly rooted in the classic metal sound of SAXON, JUDAS PRIEST, ACCEPT and IRON MAIDEN lay.

This comes as no surprise as the band was formed in 1981 and their debut album First Attack was released in 1989. Nevertheless, the band has actually picked up pace only in the last decade with numerous albums that have been able to enthuse more and more genre fans.

The ten new tracks take exactly the same line and impress with pumping metal rhythms, hard riffs, groovy solos and catchy refrains. In fact, there is hardly a song on the album that you cannot sing along to at the top of your lungs, and that’s the way it has to be!

1. Soulkeeper
2. Angry Machines
3. War Zone
4. Better Times
5. Survivor
6. Bells Of Death
7. Bullet
8. Mystic
9. We Stay Strong
10. Rock ’n’ Roll In My Head

This brilliantly emotive, hard rocking new album opens on the late ’80s metal beast of the titular Soulkeeper and the thunderously drum-led Angry Machines and then backs those up with the old school heavy metal of War Zone, the lighter fare of the rocking Better Times and then comes the melodic rocking metal of Survivor.

Along next is the atmospherically-charged, AC-DC-hued Bells Of Death and the emphatically full on Bullet and they are in turn backed by the balladry of Mystic, the recording coming to a close on the deafening roar within the assertive We Stay Strong and the impassioned rock of Rock ’n Roll In My Head.

The songs were recorded at Wellenschmiede Studio and mixed and mastered by Timo Hacke (Mantar, Ancient Curse, Inner Axis, Whiskey Hell). In terms of backing vocals, the band was supported by e. g. Dirk Schlachter (Gamma Ray, Ross The Boss), Mark Brohning (Bad Influence), Conny Bethke (Chainreaction, Wheels Of Steel) and Hanjo Gehrke (Skytap, Wheels Of Steel).

The band will also play some live shows again this year starting March 25th (album release show) to blow away the audience with their new songs live on stage.

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