BLACKWELDER – Survival Of The Fittest

Blackwelder is a new “supergroup” featuring Ralf Scheepers and Aquiles Priester (Primal Fear), Andrew Szucs (Seven Seraphim), and Bjorn Englen (Dio Disciples). With Traditional, Power, and Progressive backgrounds in the fold, one could expect quite a diverse offering from this band. Instead, this quartet delivers in-your-face, straight-forward Traditional Metal with some Power Metal characteristics that essentially cause Blackwelder’s sound to come through as “aggressive” and heavy as hell. With Scheepers at the microphone and Priester bludgeoning the drum kit, the band sounds more like Primal Fear (at their best) than anyone else … but you’ll find that’s a good thing.