Review by ZeroSymbolic7188 for Omen - Battle Cry (1984)

I was pretty excited about this one. I had never heard it before, and the album art just tickles my brain in all the right ways. Love at first sight? Maybe let's see how the date goes...

Yeah I didn't get catfished with this one. What you have here is something like ManOwaR meets Manilla Road, but the production isn't quite as good as what you might find on albums by those bands-and that works in it's favor. I love music that sounds like this. It's a little bit messy and a little bit muddy, but not raw. It's the sound of a very nicely done demo-tape, and I absolutely love that. Like next time your band is rehearsing and your listening to the standards like ManOwaR, Manilla Road, Metallica, Iron Maiden, etc, you can pop out your copy of Omen's-Battle Cry and hit em with something a little bit diferent but equally awesome. It's that kind of buried treasure album. Lyrically mostly medievel fantasy stuff, executioners, dragons, blades, battles, the usual stuff.

All that being said this is a 5 star from me, because it just gets "the formula" right for me to do that. Another person might listen to this and find nothing special. Listen to it and form your opinion, but for me it's a banger that I'm going to come back to time and time again. It's in rotation.