Sacred Outcry - the majesty of excellence has arrived

Sacred Outcry

Towers of Gold

No Remorse Records

19.05.2023

I often listen to new albums without looking into the details. I like to hear the music and make a judgment call on the songs, the skills and the sound quality, and see where things go from there. So, I was listening to this music and it sounded awesome, but there was something very interesting taking place. After some time, I had to look it up. I’ll come back to this point in a minute.

Anyway, in 2020 Sacred Outcry debuted with a strong album titled Damned for All Time, a tour de force of riffs, melodies, singing and epic traditional heavy metal, all marked by a certain quality to make people sit up and take notice. The new 2023 album Towers of Gold (10 tracks in 55 minutes) is even better, if that is possible. The music remains the sound of heroic traditional heavy metal in all its glory, with the aim of delivering to the audience nothing short of excellence. The standards that this band sets for itself are rather high, and the beneficiaries of such compulsive, demanding objectives is the listener.

So, back to my earlier story. The one thing that I got my attention was the singing. It sounded familiar and very good. I had to look it up and what do you know?! The new singer on this album is none other than Daniel Heiman, the singer who captured the attention of the heavy and power metal audiences with Lost Horizon’s two albums in 2001 and 2003, both nearly perfect albums. Besides nearly perfect music, there was the beauty of the acrobatic singing, with a voice as luxurious as the most elite beautiful voices in all of metal. The reason why Sacred Outcry is noteworthy is because they seem to have convinced Daniel Heiman to sing in the style of Lost Horizon (and even use the words “lost horizon” on one of the songs), to use his voice in all of its grandiosity, to showcase its elegance. It is quite the achievement to behold. Come for the songwriting and lyrics, stay for the marvelous singing.

Towers of Gold by Sacred Outcry

https://www.facebook.com/SacredOutcry/