Jag Panzer - "Casting The Stones" Review

Artist/ Band: Jag Panzer
Title: Casting The Stones
Label: Century Media
Year of Release: 2004
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The Review:

Jag Panzer has all the best qualities that make true heavy metal shine. They seem to be somewhere between Dio & Iron Maiden in their delivery but utilizing their own sound. Casting The Stones, is my first experience for Jag Panzer so I don’t really know a lot about their previous releases. I am however very pleased with their music. It isn’t some shredfest or boring metal that I’ve heard over the years. From my listening, Jag Panzer is on par with several newer metal bands such as Blind Guardian, Iced Earth and Mastodon.

Jag Panzer is one of the better sounding power progressive bands to come out, mainly because they actually have some progressive tendencies. The label progressive isn’t solely due to odd percussive timing that leads some to believe that they’re “progressive”. Jag Panzer fuses in some of the elements of the classic era of progressive rock with the power of metal. I'd look into their past catalog in the near future for further listening.

In conclusion, I’d recommend this to the fan’s of the aforementioned bands and of very well played heavy metal. Jag Panzer is one of the few bands that keeps the metal torch alive in today’s nu-metal world.

Reviewed by Ron Fuchs on October 31st, 2004

Tracks:

01. Feast Or Famine

02. The Mission (1941)

03. Vigilant

04. Archilles

05. Tempest

06. Legion Immortal

07. Battered And Bruised

08. Cold

09. Starlight's Fury

10. The Harkening

11. Precipice