BARBARIAN (It) – ‘To No God Shall I Kneel’ CD

Still deadly committed to the eternal riddle of steel, BARBARIAN’s sound continues to find a unique balance between the ancient and the fresh, but without once ever stinking of falseness or modernity. Timeless to the very end, To No God Shall I Kneel takes that characteristically sweat-drenched symbiosis of early Running Wild and ’80s Manowar, grinds it through the gravel of classic Celtic Frost, and finishes it off the panache of likewise-classic Venom.