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Forbidden Tales

    
       
       
       
     
             
Seizure are a thrash metal band from the USA founded in 2017 by guitarist/vocalist Joey Love, releasing the bands debut album 'Born In The Dark' in 2021 - and just a mere eighteen months later, sophomore album 'Forbidden Tales' (2022) was released...    
             
...and is a nine song barrage of fast paced ferocity! 'Forbidden Tales' runs for only thirty four minutes - but what a thirty four minutes! Thrash metal of the old school variety with an electrifying power surge, Seizure describe their brand of metal as "fantasy thrash", with lyrical themes surrounding wizards, ghosts, and dragons. Bringing the new album to life, is the one minute instrumental 'Forbidden Tales', creating an anticipation fuelled atmosphere for (album opener proper) 'Banish Into Fable' to come barrelling outta the speakers! The speed is incredible, the band powering forth with enough energy to blast a hole in the fucking Earth! Brutal savagery mixes with fearsome ferocity to create a fierce firestorm of thunder, the band roaring like a bonfire at a fireworks display! And just as hot too! Make no mistake, Seizure are in devastating mood, upping the ferocity from the previous song and adding a huge amount of aggression - 'Images In The Tea Leaves' a barnstorming rampage of raucous thrash metal. The head bang ability of the opening double salvo has been off the fucking charts, the band sending metalheads into a frenzy, rocking their heads back and forth at an extreme rate of knots!    
             
What an absolutely stunning way to begin your album - the band maintaining their skull crushing bone snapping brand of thrash with the blistering instrumental 'Carpathian Moon' - and a more powerful purpose and intent than heard so far. And the albums only three songs in! The intensity level is incredibly high, Seizure not holding back in thumping listeners with a torrent of hostility - the band marching on with the pummelling mid tempo mid paced 'Potion Seller', featuring as a guest, guitarist/vocalist Jadran "Conan" Gonzalez (Exmortus). 'Potion Seller' is both menacing and sinister, the guitar shredding intense, and the sheer weight heavy enough to flatten planets! And how ironic would it be if that planet was planet Earth - the flat Earth society would eventually be correct! Speed and power return en masse with the scorching hot 'Dragonspyre' - devastatingly quick and terrifyingly intense. The band have no regard for speed limits, constantly exceeding them, and roaring off into the distance leaving only dust clouds in their wake. The phenomenal pace is breath taking, Seizure slowing down for nothing and no-one!    
             
And as the album storms into the final third, the levels of intensity and energy remain sky high, 'Tongues Of Fire' exuding fear and terror in abundance, along with the incredible pace 'Forbidden Tales' (the album) has shown since it began! What a barnstorming release Seizure have given the world - every metalhead and every mosh pit everywhere are gonna love it, heads banging so hard necks are gonna be stretched to infinity...and beyond! And with no stopping for a breather, the band march on with 'Interior Castle' - the only song on offer to show inklings of traditional heavy metal. You know the ones - the iconic "foot on the monitor" gallop made famous by metal legends Iron Maiden. Bringing a very good album to a close, the band retain a little of the traditional metal flavour, with 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' - at least for the first minute anyway! And then all hell breaks fucking loose, Seizure upping the ante and rocketing forth with intense aggression - 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' fuelled by fury and ferocity!    
             
Overall, an aggression laden and ferocity fuelled thirty four minutes of immensely fast paced thrash metal.    
             
             
Review by Iron Mathew Collins    
             
Reviewed for Vlad Promotion    
             
             
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