POUNDER
“Breaking The World”
Album Review by Iron Mathew

9.5/10

Pounder are a heavy metal band from the USA formed in 2016, releasing their ‘Heavy Metal Disaster’ demo the following year. The bands first official release was the three song E.P. ‘Faster Than Fire’, and just nine months later, the band released their first full length album ‘Uncivilized’. The bands brand of power come speed metal is catchy, infectious, and the stuff of head bang heaven. Pounder are a band on the rise, continuing to pound listeners all around the world. The bands sophomore album ‘Breaking The World’, released in 2021, drops a gear and lands perfectly in the power metal genre…

…with more beef than ever before. At just thirty four minutes and seven songs long, ‘Breaking The World’ is a bombastic blast of foot on the monitor power metal to raise your fists high, and head bang along to – very hard! The album roars into life with the highly energetic ‘Spoils Of War’. Pounding hard, and thundering harder, ‘Spoils Of War’ is an exciting opener – an immediate head turner that screams “listen to me”. And listen you will, as Pounder get the infectious level just right. With only seven songs on offer, the American metallers put their all into each and every one – and it shows. The intensity continues with the title song ‘Breaking The World’, and believe me when I say that ‘Breaking The World’ (the song) could actually do what it says. The pummelling is devastating, the thundering barrage savage enough to open massive craters in the Earth’s surface. Pounder are back doing what they do best…

…delivering a ground shaking torrent of fierce, yet catchy, heavy metal. Picking up the pace and roaring forth, ‘Hard Road To Home’ is power come heavy metal of the tallest order. And the infectiousness – off the scale! Heads will be banging, feet will be tapping, fists will be punching the air, and smiles will be a mile wide. This is super stuff from a band at the top of their game. ‘Never Forever’ is another fast paced rumble, this time hitting much harder than any of the previous songs. One could even go so far as to say ‘Never Forever’ has all the aggressive traits of the thrash metal style, but played at the pace and power of traditional heavy metal…

…with a heavy dose of the power metal style woven in. Mid tempo and heavily melodic, ‘Hard City’ swaggers in and marches majestically on. The slowest, if you can really call it slow, song on the album, still hits hard and will leave an impression as it slaps you around your head. Maintaining the pace and power set by ‘Hard City’, the anthemic ‘Give Me Rock’ is a belter. Very much a heavy hitter, ‘Give Me Rock’ is gonna be a cracking crowd participation event in a live arena. Pounder have offered plenty on their second album to cement their place in the American heavy metal scene, and to begin their quest for a permanent place in the worldwide metal scene. Closing the album is the thundering ‘Deadly Eyes’ – a high energy gallop to end the album on a massive high.

Overall, an exciting and breathless romp of full on heavy come power metal, guaranteed to please fans all around the world.

TRACKLIST

Spoils Of War
Breaking The World
Hard Road To Home
Never Forever
Hard City
Give Me Rock
Deadly Eyes

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