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Title: Pretty good.
Review: The Glorious Burden is definitely a good metal album, coming from one of America's leaders of metal. This cd, surprisingly, has a lot of european sounding parts, even though it is widely known that Ripper and Jon don't like european metal. Anyway, I think adding more melody to the usual rhythm guitar parts was excellent, and definitely makes for a more over-seas sound than they had before. For instance the chorus on Declaration Day has harmonizing swedish-sounding guitars, something they haven't done a lot of in the past. This is a step forward in my-opinion because while their older srtaight-american style is great, this is a much more beautiful style of guitar playing. I do feel that Ripper's vocals are lacking though, as they always have. Poor move kicking Matt Barlow out...he was great.
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