People always ask why things need to be repeating and the answer is that they aren’t really repeating. Old Metal genres back from the dead now don’t mean that the 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s are back. Times does not run backwards, just for the future. What is happening today is the awakening of an idea: why something that was good in the past must stay buried in the sands of time and can’t be done today? This is the reason of some good works on older Metal genres are being done by young bands as the German duet KERRIGAN, as can be heard on “Bloodmoon”. The band plays in a Metal way the resembles the NWOBHM days in some ways, on others remembers the beginning of Speed Metal age in the first half of the 80s, some traces of early German Metal, and everything mixed up to create a melodic and simple musical work that can be easily absorbed and assimilated by the hearers.

The musical arrangements are pretty good (as the guitar details on “Eternal Fire”), and the melodies are hard to be heard and forgotten. Of course one can say that this formula was used many times before, and that the band isn’t playing something new, but in reality, they show personality and strength, and an amazing energy as well. Let’s try to make things plain and simple: even it sounds not new, it sounds really good. Things become different when people deal with the recording and the sound quality: all sounds clean and defined, without the need to sound as in the past. Things are really defined and clean, but heavy as well, allowing the band to be understood without problems. It’s a very good work, indeed.

For a first album of a young band, “Bloodmoon” is really a surprise, because everything fits as it must. And for those lazy ones that aren’t able to hear a full album at first, the set of better ones for an introduction is “Eternal Fire” (full of rich guitar arrangements and with catching melodies on its faster tempos), “Bloodmoon” (a slower and heavy song with focus on a great set of melodies that can be heard, with a remarkable chorus and a charming work on bass guitar and drums), “Against the Westwind” (the tempos are slower than on the previous song, with a very good singing of the vocals and backing vocals that binds the attention of the hearers), “Hold the Banner” (the clear Hard Rock touches on the melodies can be heard, and they bind the senses of the hearers), “Child of Sin” (a song with a more Hard Rock orientation, but with a full force strike at the chorus), and “Pull the Trigger”. But pay attention: all the songs are in the same creative level.

It’s really great to hear a work as “Bloodmoon”, and maybe KERRIGAN can be the next great name in the German Heavy Metal scene.