Play It Loud
Iron Command

This fashion on Metal that tries (and will never get there) to resurrect the 80's Metal really disgusts your Ol' Big Daddy here sometimes, dear nephews and nieces. The reason is simple: some bands still think that it's just to plug instruments, turn on the amps and start to play songs like bands like ACID, WARLOCK, IRON MAIDEN or any other names you can think of. And that's not the true. To play Metal it needs to have a soul and a heart, and to put both on what you're playing, leaving aside the records you love. And to be honest, Colombian quintet IRON COMMAND is an example of how you don't do the thing. "Play It Loud" is just a collection of many clichés.
The band plays a form of music between Hard Rock and Heavy Metal in the same vein of bands from NWOBHM and Germany earlier Power Metal. But where's their own efforts and personality? Play in this way seems to Big Daddy as they were writing their songs listening to WARLOCK's "Burning the Witches" and "Hellbound", and ACID's "Maniac". Nothing new, and nothing of their own, and still dusty and reeking to mold!
The sound quality is bad, with guitars in low volume level, the drums tunes are to strange, and vocals could be better, bass too loud. Ok, if you're looking for and talking about music done for old and dusty Demo Tapes (and I'm not kidding when I speak about tapes), but not for this time. Digital recording and mastering processes can grant fine results.
When they play, we can feel that they really have talent to do metal. Songs like "Iron Command", "Rock the Night" and "Into the Fire" make this idea extremely clear, but the lack of personality and the bad sound quality, allied with this Déjà vu feeling demands more and more to become something good.
Please, guys, show your true face, do music by your own. Forget that "we must sound like this or that band", and play out loud your own music. To Ol' Big Daddy here it's clear that you can.<
4 / 10
Nothing special

"Play It Loud" Track-listing:
1. Iron Command
2. The Years of Decay
3. Rock the Night!
4. Power Abuse
5. Rush Slaves
6. Into the Fire
7. Persecution
8. Sentence
9. Play it Loud
Iron Command Lineup:
Paola Martínez - Vocals
Carolina Quiroga - Guitars
Johnathan Calle - Guitars
Claudia Yepes - Bass
Daniel Hernandez - Drums
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