Virgin Steele – Nocturnes of Hellfire
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Label: Steamhammer/SPV
For nearly 30 years, Virgin Steele has been one of metal music’s unsung heroes. In all honesty, people really dog on these guys for being corny and what not but a lot of these very people will flock to a Manowar show to pledge their allegiance to their baby oiled basement dwelling gods. That aside, Virgin Steele is just one of those bands that I just can’t write off but at the same time they have never (and probably never will be) one of those bands that I place in my top tier. With that being said, this doesn’t mean that they aren’t good. As a matter of fact, I find Virgin Steele to be a really good band but this album is just another example of why I can only take this band in small doses.
While the actual performances on Virgin Steele’s latest album Nocturnes of Hellfire are top notch, it is also an album that had me cracking up laughing at the same time. Do you want to have a blast at your next party? Play the Virgin Steele Drinking Game. Take a shot every time lead vocalist David DeFeis says “Rrraw!”,”Ow!”, “Yeah!” or scream in his high ass falsetto voice. This game is guaranteed to rule your fucking party because everyone will be absolutely shitfaced by the 4th song “Black Sun- Black Mass.”
Nocturnes of Hellfire is an album that was not easy for me to digest. DeFeis has a fucking epic voice after all these years and that is more than apparent but the big question here is, “Did the world really need a new Virgin Steele album?” After completing this album I can honestly say that my life is none the better or worse after hearing it. As a matter of fact, I’ll forget that I even heard this album five minutes after writing this review. Virgin Steele is a band that has left behind a pretty rad ass legacy of music in their wake but Nocturnes of Hellfire is just an album that really didn’t need to be made.
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