Been listening to the two Beast in Black albums. My brother got me them for Christmas. I’d never heard of them so put them on for a couple of minutes a few weeks ago and decided I wouldn’t like them. Been giving them a proper listen though in the last couple of days and enjoying them a lot. Yes it’s not highbrow stuff, pure cheesy melodic heavy metal but they’ve got one hell of a singer. There’s songs which I thought were male and female duets and it’s the same guy singing both parts. Huge range from Halfordesque screams to broadway show singing, to folky female singing. The Astonishing would’ve been interesting with this guy, not that it wasn’t with our own JLB of course, but this guy could’ve really accentuated all the different parts, females included.