Sleepy Hollow - Skull 13 (Review)

Genre : U.S Metal

Label : Pure Steel Records

Release Date : 23 March 2012

Playing time : 57:31

Sleepy Hollow , 11 years after their first album , are back and ready to release a second full length album . On the vocals , Bob Mitchel (ex-Attacker) is a guarantee . On the bass there's a new member , MikeLe Pond , known from Symphony X .

The new album is called "Skull 13" , and it contains 11 Skull-crushing tracks . The album combines classic and powerfull heavy metal riffs , with groovie parts (Black Passage , Facemelter) and the tempos varieting from mid-tempo to really fast . The vocals of Bob are like a perfect mixture of Udo and Bobby Blitz . The production makes the album sound even more powerfull ,and giving it a slightly more modern approach . My personal favourites are , the 10 minute epos - "The legend Retold" , the powerfull opener "Death of a Horseman" and the aggressive "Rear Window" .

Tracklist :

1.Death of a horseman

2.Facemelter

3.Black Passage

4.Bleed Steel

5.Rear Window

6.Inquisition

7.Epic (The legend Retold)

8.Eternal Bridge

9.Misery Waltz

10.Spiral Effect

11. Midnight

"Skull 13" is a great album , old school , but with a modern touch , and i think it's gonna make a lot of the U.S-Power metal fans happy .