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Review: Martyr (Hol) - Dark Believer
Martyr (Hol)
www.martyronline.nl
Dark Believer

Label: Rock of Angels Records
Year released: 2025
Duration: 46:57
Tracks: 9
Genre: Heavy Metal

Rating:
4/5


Review online: September 16, 2025
Reviewed by: MetalMike
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Dark Believer is album number six from The Netherland's Martyr and picks up the speedy, aggressive power/thrash thread where the band left off after 2022's Planet Metalhead. The album is an all-out riff fest with a biting guitar tone that remains melodic, vocals that run the gamut from gruff shouting to high-pitched wails and all-around solid songwriting. The overall feel of Dark Believer is more Vicious Rumors, with a bit of Painkiller-era Priest, and less early Queensrÿche than Planet Metalhead and that make it somewhat less varied than its predecessor, but it remains an ass-kicking good time all the way through. Queue up Dark Believer for a dose of pure, uncut heavy metal.

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