The only default here is "Crusaders Revenge".
#Crusader no remorse speed run series
Therefore, "Heresy" does a series of nice riffs and the different parts of the song quickly one after another and this also applies to "The Burning", "Massacre of the Cathars" and "700 Years On". Therefore melodic intros are frequent, whatever the type of guitar it can be ("Heresy", "Search for Perfection", "Killtime", "The Burning", "Castle in the Wind") and less thrashy parts aren't rare as well (the acoustic guitar interlude of "Heresy", the melodic verses of "Search for Perfection", the excellent verse riff of "Killtime", the nice main riff of "Massacre of the Cathars", the global pace of "Serenity" or the beautiful solo in "700 Years On".Īs announced in the intro, the structure of this album is much more conscientious, and we can notice a better coherence between the parts of every song, which wasn't really present on "Product of Imagination". We also notice the improvement in the melodies, with much more emotions and sense, though we cannot fully consider this album as being "power metal" (according to me). We have, from one side, technical mid-tempo songs such as "Search for Perfection", "The Burning", "Massacre of the Cathars" and Serenity, and from the other hand high-tempo songs like "Heresy", "Killtime", "Crusader's Revenge" and "Seven Hundred Years On". Just as "Product of Imagination", the album alternates between technical and speed riffs with more cohesion. It is quite a strange way to conclude an album though judicious regarding the instruments (actually the instrument). Each riff starts quite well but never really ends and are replaced by new ones, with a blowing wind background. I would qualify it as "convoluted" because it never goes through with their ideas. The acoustic guitar has its own track, the very last one, the instrumental "Castle in the Wind", in the same vein as the intro of "Heresy" but that leaves me much more dissatisfied because more chaotic, almost experimental.
The very firsts seconds of "Heresy" are played by one of the most beautiful acoustic guitar intros I've ever heard, with melodic yet very technical notes that foreshadow slowly the upcoming album. The album starts and ends the same way: by acoustic guitar melodies. By the way, these intros are quite similar. The album starts the same way as its predecessor, by a double-sided vinyl which has an introduction on both sides, "Heresy" for the A side and "The Burning" for the other. I still do not love it, but the band showed through it clear improvements, especially in the singing and in the coherence of the different parts of the songs. If I liked the previous album but not that much, "Heresy" convinced me much more. This album appears to be an improved copy of its predecessor, the global thrash sonorities sounding very similar. Today, this album remains the band's best selling and ends an "early-years era" of two albums (with the first one) in which the band was focusing more on technical and thrash riffs rather than melody, just like Heathen or Metallica.
The objective was to remove Catharism from Languedoc, in Southern France, a religion considered as a heresy by the Papal States. It is a concept album relating the Albigensian Crusade, a war proclaimed by Pope Innocent III that lasted from 1209 to 1229. It came out two years after "Product of Imagination". "Heresy" is probably Paradox's most famous album.
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