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When Skrewdriver recorded “The Strong Survive” album in 1990 and released it on Rock-O-Rama Records, they were heavily criticized for their heavy metal record. Longtime fans were already willing to accept that the band was gradually incorporating hard rock elements into their Oi! sound, but direct metal (including Judas Priest and Black Sabbath cover versions) was a little too much of a good thing for many of the “bootboys”. So for their last two albums, “Freedom What Freedom” and “Hail Victory”, the band returned to Oi! mixed with hard rock, but Ian Stuart and Stigger still wanted to play metal, so without further ado they formed White Diamond, who debuted in 1991 with the album “The Reaper”.

As with “The Strong Survive”, it is not pure metal, but a mixture of Oi! and metal. This becomes immediately clear when the opening track “On the Wings of the Storm” begins with a short lead guitar solo, but then changes into a typical three-chord punk riff in the Skrewdriver style. The second song “Judge” is bass-heavy and under 110 seconds long. In general, most of the songs are “punky” short. Only the last track “Bright City Lights” is over three and a half minutes long.

These three songs as well as “Hands of a Stranger” are probably the best on this album. In contrast to “The Strong Survive” record, there are no “hard” themes on this record. There's hardly anything even remotely political here, just a few sideswipes at judges and authority figures and a general sense of disenfranchisement is dealt with lyrically. Ian Stuart and Skrewdriver fans should nevertheless enjoy this album.

11 songs with a playing time of just under 31 minutes. Strictly limited to 499 units, hand-numbered, digitally remastered (vinyl mastering), only available on black 12 inch vinyl.

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