Opening song ´The Bogeyman´ starts of with a deceiving keyboard intro. It doesn’t take long before the keyboard intro burst into a hard pounding metal track. You will immediately recognize the vast amount of Accept in the music’s D.N.A. The throbbing, fist pumping ‘Black and White’ revels in its true Priest-like glory. ‘Heavy Metal Heaven’ opens with an excellent percussive section, and is first class festival material. And that is what is so striking about U.D.O. Classic sounding metal on one hand and yet still contemporary on the other. You can place this next to modern day metal and it still sounds fresh.

 

The unique vocal style of Dirkschneider makes Dominator a strong album anyway, but the music is not to be overlooked. It follows 2007’s Mastercutor perfectly and is catchy as always. ‘Devil's Rendezvous’ is quite surprising for an U.D.O. album. It is quite danceable and if a pop arrangement would be made, I’m sure it would be an enormous hit. However I don’t see them even remotely trying that. After a career spanning 4 decades they won’t throw their integrity overboard. Excellent record, enough said.