Armored Saint
Eclectic 80s metal diehards continue to deliv er the goods.
Punching The Sky METAL BLADE
Five years on from the widely praised Win Hands Down, with Punching The Sky Armored Saint have conjured another master class in absurdly uplifting melodic heavy metal. Aside from having one of metal’s greatest ever voices in John Bush, the Los Angeles veterans have always stood apart from their peers thanks to the classiness of their songwriting. Punching The Sky is stuffed to the gills with incredibly memorable and rousing anthems, while also exhibiting plenty of the diversity and imagination that has informed the band’s sound since 1991’s seminal Symbol Of Salvation. From the opening brace of epic rabble rousers Standing On The Shoulders Of Giant and End Of The Attention Span to snotty hard rockers like My Jurisdiction and Bark, No Bite, Armored Saint are on blistering form, and still deserve to be much, much bigger than they are.