Legend

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http://www.myspace.com/legendfromamerica

Listen to "From the Fjords".

I find this to be impressively good.  To use a rather cliché word, it is "innovative".

Please, tell me what you think.

[burewestnik]

This is good, it`s very enjoyable and lively.
However, "innovative" almost made me laugh. (Impressions from "Destroyer" follow) I don't remember another band which is more Sabbath worship than Legend. I think only coincidence kept Sabbath from writing these songs.

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I was considering the drumming (or, rather, the use of it) more than anything else to be "innovative".  I certainly haven't heard both Speed and Thrash metal drum lines in a song before the '80s.  Then again, I haven't listened to much '70s metal outside of Sabbath and (ahem) Led Zeppelin.

[satans_underwear]

Sure it might sound cheesy and cliche now, but in 1979 this would have been the shit, despite the Sabbath worship.. Nice find, very enjoyable. I am going to have to look for a download of this album now.
Is this the first ever "viking metal" release??

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Yes, it has been dubbed such.