Argus
Beyond The Martyrs
"Beyond the Martyrs", ARGUS third full length album, starts where their 2011s release "Boldly Stride the Doomed" had left us - at the Ruins of Ouroboros. In between these two releases ARGUS has tested its strength and valor with several live shows both in their homeland and in Europe, receiving high praises from fans and from the record industry. Although a sense of impending fate marks again their compositions, the characteristic doom metal elements which were a distinguished trademark of Argus past releases have now mostly left place to a straight and genuine heavy metal approach, its nature rooted in the most classic environment of Heavy Metal tradition. Argus' third album is sure to force metal heads everywhere to raise horn-crested fists to the sky. "Beyond the Martyrs" contains the hallmarks of their previous works - twin guitars, soaring vocals, and a driving rhythm section; it is heavy, melodic, epic, and brooding all at once. If you don't like this album, you don't like metal!