Band: Flame
Title: March Into Firelands
Label: Hells Headbangers Records (North and South America) / Primitive Reaction (Europe)
Release date: April 12th 2011
Review: CD

Finland’s Flame were formed at the end of last century and currently consist of (former) members of great acts like Barathrum, Urn, Adorior and Death Thrashers Kuopio. The past decade, Flame recorded a couple of demos / promos and two splits (with Devil Lee Roth and Ghastly), and Iron Pegasus released the debut in 2005, which was called Into The Age Of Fire. Then things went silent for a while, yet the band returns with the sophomore full length, March Into Firelands, which lasts for thirty seven minutes (only). The album was meant to be released at the end of last year, but due to unforeseen things, it got postponed for half a year.
As from the first moment, March Into Firelands burns! It’s like I expected, or at least like I hoped for: March Into Firelands goes on where Into The Age Of Fire ended. With this album, Flame creates the purest Old School Superiority, inspired by the protagonic excellence of the eighties. Thrashing Black Metal or blackened Thrash Metal, whatever it might be defined as, this IS Thrash Metal and Black Metal, this IS a bestial and barbaric triumph! Dynamic, straight-forward, uncompromising, primal and thunderous, these hymns exhale a spirit of purity and elementary.
Desaster, Bathory, Dead Head, Horna, Nifelheim, Vulcano, Urn or Aura Noir, if these bands turn you on, Flame will do too…

90/100

Ivan Tibos.