Featuring, as always, front/ax man/(lone) founding member Rage Sadler alongside fellow six-string'er Toby Woods and a definitive, naturally formative battery in bassist Isaac Healy and drummer Liam Etheridge, the British, if not heavily fantastical and Medievally conjured, power metal outfit wastes no time setting the album's straight up and direct, no frills disposition/tone with a titular, mid-tempo, crash cymbal laden opener which verily sounds cut from the same upbeat albeit rustic cloth as said middle-of-the-"path" predecessor.Īgain, the crystal clear, well-rounded production favours each component in a similarly exposed, rank and file manner, from Healy's buoyant and plump, semi-adventurous bass lines atop his colleague's pronouncedly odd and mercurial, yet no less throttling or propulsive, drum fills/beats, to Sadler/Woods' borderline fey, oft major keyed (i.e. signature sound with Reforge The Steel, a respective fourth full-length amid a swath of singles put out since 2009. Following a major line-up overhaul as well as barely exalted live album concurrent to 2018's Crisis of Faith, Colchester's Kaine has indubitably found its voice i.e.
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