Urudium (Japan): Moonlit Sorrow

Urudium (Japan): Moonlit Sorrow
Urudium is an interesting proposition. First, the guitar solos, melodies, harmonies sound crystal clear and suggest a love for the instrument.
As to the style, it is guitar-riff-and-solo driven speedy heavy metal that stays in the uptempo and fast (but no blasting speed) somewhere between thrash and heavy metal, but closer to the speed of thrash, but with high singing/yelling vocals, and lost of guitar solo/melody/harmony elements.
Apparently, this is all the work of one Shane Lightning Yamash, but this sounds a lot like a band, not a solo project.
There are 13 songs on this album and Urudium does not suffer from a lack of energy. In fact, only track number 5, the title track, is in the slower territory and number 6, “Call Me” stays in the slower/midtempo, and the 11 other songs are uptempo and/or fast. Fun!
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