Ambush – Evil In All Dimensions
Ambush – Evil In All Dimensions
Napalm Records
Release Date: 05/09/2025
Review by Victor Augusto
8/10
A lot has been said about the ending of all classic metal bands with 40/50 years of career that are about to retire, also the lack of renovations in the mainstream scene. Maybe I’m also an old man and if you ask me how to make a young kid enjoy this kind of music we love, I have no clue how to answer you. I really don’t know whether putting the classic tracks that made Heavy Metal sound like it sounds nowadays is still as impactful for the new kids as it was for me. If the answer is “yes, we still can bring young people to the “Heavy Metal side”. And I am 100% sure that this Swedish band, Ambush, will be the next mainstream name to bring thousands of people to our side.
With more than a decade on the road and 100% focused on sounding like the best of traditional Metal bands from the eighties, these guys are really doing an extremely good job, album after album. I believe I remember them playing in my country (Brazil) a couple of times, and they are about to return here supporting Grave Digger (at least in my hometown). I must say that what made me want to hear them was all my friends’ reports about them playing in this land.
The album is like having a collection of “The best of” 80’s Traditional Heavy Metal bands. These guys really know what they’re doing, and the result is very impressive. And despite the fact it might sound like I’m saying the band is an exact copy of all bands we know, it´s quite the opposite. For example, although the second song ‘Maskirovka’ has killer cadenced riffs in a best Iron Maiden’s way, the vocal line is a bit different from what I was expecting, being somewhat inspired by something like Italian Opera.
Another interesting detail is how they carry incredible influences from the early days of classical Power Metal bands, such as Gamma Ray, mainly through the vocal sonority of Oskar Jakobsson, as you can hear right on the title (also opening) track ‘Evil In All Dimensions’. This good balance of Power and Heavy Metal is another highlight of the album, not letting you get tired of that bunch of melodies and double kicks that many Power bands use to do, or sounding just like old bands.
The good heavy ballad ‘I Fear The Blood’ comes in the best Scorpions’ sonority after incredible Metal songs, giving you a chance to draw breath, but the riff attack returns right after with ‘Come Angel of Night’. And then the album goes heavy, mixing speed and cadenced passages until the closing song ‘Heavy Metal Brethren’. I have no doubt that if “Evil In All Dimensions” had been released in the eighties, this album would be considered an absolutely classic album. I still have a feeling that this album also can be the key to convert new people into the Metal Head universe, because it carries the best of what this kind of music offers.
Ambush, I see you in November. Into the pit!
‘Maskirovka’ Official Video
TRACKLISTING:
01. Evil In All Dimensions
02. Maskirovka
03. Iron Sign
04 . The Night I Took Your Life
05. I Fear The Blood
06. Come Angel of Night
07. The Reaper
08. Bending The Steel
09 . Heavy Metal Brethren
LINE-UP:
Olof Engqvist – Guitars & Backing vocals
Karl Dotzek – Guitars & Backing vocals
Oskar Andersson – Bass, vocals & Backing vocals
Linus Fritzson – Drums & Backing vocals
Oskar Jakobsson – Vocals
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