The first song of the album starts after an intro of thunder and a train running by. From the first moment the pedal goes to the metal and I'm already nodding my head. This song is a great start of the album; it immediately grabs you by the balls. The second song 'City Of The Damned' reminds me a bit of 'Children Of The Damned' from Iron Maiden. The main reason for this is probably just the song title and the fact the choruses are alike. That is also the only similarity Raise Hell has with Iron Maiden. Because music wise Raise Hell plays thrash metal in the style of Destruction and Children Of Bodom.

 

If you listen to the song 'Like Clowns We Craw' it's obvious Raise Hell is capable of writing goods songs. On the other hand the song 'Reapers Calling' which follows after 'Like Clowns We Crawl' is hardly inspirational and rather boring. This problem occurs several times on this album and that's a pity.

 

As I mentioned before it's always a great risk to change a vocalist of a band. As for Raise Hell it turned out well. If you compare the songs from older albums with the songs on City Of The Damned it's obvious that the new vocalist makes the songs more dynamical.

 

Overall City Of The Damned isn't a bad album at all. It has really great songs on it. Of course everything is done before but isn't that with a lot of bands nowadays. I think if you really like Thrash metal this could be a nice album to contribute to your collection.