If you love the old school speed metal/thrash than you'll want this. Beginning to end ass kicking. Cool riffs, great solos and choruses. A little bit technical, a little bit experimental with occasional awesome sounding synths thrown in for good measure. It's good. Buy it!
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This is metal at its best, awesome vocals, heavy fat guitar riffs, drums with a driving beat, awesome bass Lyrics that make you think about issues right to life, religion,hard to deal with emotions.
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Wow!!! What a CD !!!Great guitar riff, great vocals. You just need it!
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As many faithful metalheads may have observed, there appears to be a pandemic infecting the metal scene as of late. Bands (of alleged males, and I’m a midget from Indonesia!) in women’s jeans, mascara, and frilly scarves plagiarize riffs from bands ranging between At The Gates, In Flames, Kreator, Megadeth, Testament and Slayer. They mix the aforementioned riffs with predictable (formulaic may be a preferably apt adjective) song structures, profuse usage of hardcore breakdowns, terrible screaming (labeling such an abomination as throat vocals is a slap in the face to legendary metal vocalists) and whiny/girly emo vocals. This musical obscenity disguises itself and perpetrates the metal community with claims of being this generation’s Iron Maiden, Kreator and/or Megadeth. It has even reached such an excessive degree where I am afraid to check out any bands that claim to be influenced by classic metal bands.

So I recently heard of an American metal project called Worwyk. This one-man project, led by Thomas Vitacco, claims to play true metal in the vein of Iron Maiden and Kreator, and I must say, this is the real deal! The music presented in 2006’s In Solitude is a very solid blend of traditional heavy metal and modern Teutonic thrash metal. There are tempo changes, and the songs are somewhat technical, but there is a lot of focus on memorable song writing. The tempo of the album mostly sticks to a mid-pace, sometimes on the faster end of the mid-pace. The riffing, while quite heavy, remains rather melodic and epic. The riffs also work to create a certain dramatic effect, and powerful atmosphere. You will definitely hear a very strong Kreator influence in the rhythm guitar work. Thomas also makes very effective use of some synthesizers and acoustic guitar work throughout the album.The lead work is top notch. Classically inspired leads tear through the album. But while the solos are technically proficient, Thomas does not sacrifice melody and power.

Joining Thomas on In Solitude is Mike O’Hara taking over the vocal duties. His vocal style is different than what you might expect on an album like this, and it will take a little time to get used to. His vocals have a somewhat raspy whisper quality to it, and it is definitely different than most clean vocalists, especially for what you would expect on an album like this. But his vocals often invoke the certain feeling conveyed in many of the songs.

Some highlights include the catchy No Emotion, Is It Life, which is one of the album’s more technical songs, the instrumental Cutthroat, which is a wonderful mix of melodic and powerful riffs, keyboards, and top notch guitar leads.

But the main highlight for me is the final track on the album, Anneliese, a semi-power ballad based on the story of Annelise Michel (aka Emilie Rose), who was allegedly possessed and died soon after her supposed exorcism (this story had also influenced that crappy movie The Exorcism Of Emelie Rose, and Requiem, which I have not seen). Some tasteful keyboards, angelic, choir-like female vocals and a very effective guitar theme introduce this ballad. Where many bands tend to think a ballad just means a softer, cheesy, generic, pretty much a pop song, Anneliese doesn’t go in that direction. While it is softer and slower paced than the rest of the songs on the album, what really sets this song apart is the epic, powerful, emotional feeling of the song. Those qualities are what make a ballad worth writing or recording.

This album should appeal to fans of bands like Kreator, Iron Maiden, Metal Church, Jag Panzer, Destruction and the like. Probably one of the best comparisons I can make is to October 31. A solid mix of heavy metal and thrash metal, this album gets an 8 out of 10. Enjoy.
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