Many bands throw away all their possibilities with raw recording qualities. It's not a matter of you want to do in this or that way with your musical work (in reality, you can chose whatever you want), but you can destroy many possibilities with a raw quality that doesn't fit in our days. The Brazilian quartet KRULL is one of them. On "The Black Coast", all a good work was destroyed. They play a heavy and fast form of Epic/Power Metal with clear influences of names from the first half of the 80's (IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, ACCEPT, MANOWAR, CHASTAIN, and others like these names), and although they aren't play something original and new at all, their melodies are excellent and they really have a strong personality pulsing on their songs.

We can name as great moments of fun songs as "The Witch" (very good guitars, indeed), the very good melodies shown on "By Steel", the good introspective approach on "Valhalla", the NWOBHM influence of "The King and the Sword", and the long, aggressive and heavy "The Black Coast" are very good songs, showing how they have a great musical potential, even greater than some new bands that have success playing Old School Metal. But they threw away all their talent and chances with such moldy and raw sound quality. The tunes used for the drums are terrible, the album's songs sound hollow. I don't know if my compatriots felt on those disgusting manias of "this is the best way to sound" that some old Metalheads defend here in Brazil. A better sound quality would had made their album remarkable, but in this way, all that would be great is sounding horrible...

I truly want to hear you on your next release, because I believe in your work. Just throw away this disgusting mania of being "an 80's band", because we aren't in the 80's. Do it great and do it right as your music needs to be.