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Classic Album Review: Jag Panzer | The Age Of Mastery

The American metal throwbacks set their time machine for rock's glory days.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Going by this disc, The Age Of Mastery for the Jag Panzer lads ended about 1985 with the last decent Iron Maiden album. And that’s precisely where this time-machine album’s controls are set.

Just hit play and you’re whisked to a world of Van Halen guitar solos, falsetto vocals and Spinal Tap-ish tunes like Lustfull And Free — in short, good ol’ leather-and-spandex, foot-up-on-the-monitor, shake-your-hair-in-unison metal. Oddly enough, it’s a nice break from the skull-pounding overkill of more modern thrash.