With cover art featuring a pterodactyl/alligator/man hybrid creature feasting upon a torn up corpse with other scattered bones and a burning city in the background, Holy Grail's debut album brings to mind artists like Helloween and Grim Reaper and indicate and power metal style. Turns out, that is about right. Formed from the ashes of White Wizzard's original lineup, California's Holy Grail delivers a more than satisfying power metal album inflected with the energy of speed metal and the aggression of thrash metal, perhaps inhabiting a space between Iced Earth and Dragonforce. This is a fine example of what metal can be.
