MECHANIC TYRANTS
“St. Diemen Riots”
Album Review by Iron Mathew

10/10

Mechanic Tyrants are a speed metal band from Germany formed in 2021, releasing their debut E.P. ‘Meanhattan’ in 2022, and debut album ‘St. Diemen Riots’ in 2024.

Founded by vocalist/guitarist Florian Fait and bass player Danny Keck, the band line-up is completed by guitarist Jakob Struve and drummer Orlando Mack – the Bavarian four-piece storming onto the worldwide metal stage at a hundred fucking miles an hour! Album opener ‘Tower 42’ sets a blistering pace as it roars outta the blocks to batter listeners senseless with a monumental amount of ferocity! The speed here is incredible, the head bang ability off the charts, ‘Tower 42’ displaying a glorious mix of traditional metal and thrash – and when I say thrash, I mean the driving aggression, Mechanic Tyrants immediately turning heads!

And heads will stay turned in the direction of Germany as the speed metallers surge forth with the iconic metal gallop, ‘Murder At The Barricades’ oozing a huge old school flavour, the band planting their feet firmly on the heavy metal monitor! The opening brace has been a sensational start to the album, every listener, fan and follower around the world glued to ‘St. Diemen Riots’, no-one going anywhere while the metal is this fucking good! And keeping the old school flavour very strong, the title song ‘St. Diemen Riots’ has the most NWOBHM sounding guitar tone of any of the albums first three songs – the band dropping a gear to storm on at a very comfortable head banging pace! That is until the two and a half minute mark when all hell breaks fucking loose, ‘St. Diemen Riots’ (the song) hurtling on faster than the speed of light – Mechanic Tyrants delivering the kind of metal that a Megadeth, Judas Priest merger would create! The levels of ferocity and energy are higher than the fucking sky, ‘Madrugada’ chiming in as the shortest song on offer at just two minutes in length!

And it’s an instrumental too, a mellow and serene atmosphere descending upon the album as Mechanic Tyrants stroll forth, building an air of anticipation for ‘Ruins Of The Past’ – the iconic NWOBHM guitar sound pouring outta ‘Ruins Of The Past’ just like water pours over a waterfall! The infectious level too has just shot through the roof, every traditional metaller everywhere drooling over this one, the pace and power a perfect match to the eighties heyday for heavy metal evolution! The album began good, and has just gotten better and better with each song that storms on by, ‘Speed Metal Guerrilla’ blazing a fiery trail across the land it scurries over! The band are electrifying here, the speed metal merchants from Germany setting new land speed records as ‘Speed Metal Guerrilla’ leaves everything and everyone in its wake! And breathless too, for the sheer energy driving the album forward is all consuming, Mechanic Tyrants effortlessly breaking every speed limit known to man! And talking of breaking, the head bang ability right now is neck breaking, ‘St. Diemen Riots’ (the album) a savage assault on every bone, muscle and nerve in the human body! And bringing a more majestic mid tempo swagger to the fore, ‘Sons Of Evil’ pounds the ground with a bombastic, anthemic hammer-stomp that legends Saxon are renowned for!

There just hasn’t been a break from the non-stop heavy metal attack taking place right now, the German speedsters an unforgiving force of nature that’s simply getting stronger and stronger – faster too! ‘Cause ‘Above The Law’ comes hurtling in at high velocity to bang the heads of every listener, fan and follower harder than ever before! What a terrific torrent of thrash tinged, very speedy traditional heavy metal, the band bringing a touch of the raucous punk fuelled metal of Motorhead to the party via ‘Bad Seed’ – a party that’s living and breathing heavy metal, every party-goer vigorously rocking their head back and forth and raising clenched fists high in the air! And all too soon the final song comes round the corner to knock you off yer feet, Mechanic Tyrants bringing their debut album to a close with their self titled song ‘Mechanic Tyrants’. And the hammer-stomp heard earlier makes an emphatic return, for all of the first minute or so, ‘Mechanic Tyrants’ changing through the gears to roar off at top speed! And if you go back forty four years to 1980, a legend of the heavy metal world released their debut album, and ended it with their self titled song too – the band still performing today at the very highest level with seventeen studio albums under their belts! What’s not to say Mechanic Tyrants won’t have the same kinda lengthy career? Only time will tell but they’ve made a sensational start!

Overall, a fast paced, furious and ferocious gallop of traditional heavy metal, ‘St. Diemen Riots’ is driven by immense speed and energy.

TRACKLIST

Tower 42
Murder At The Barricades
St. Diemen Riots
Madrugada
Ruins Of The Past
Speed Metal Guerrilla
Sons Of Evil
Above The Law
Bad Seed
Mechanic Tyrants

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