Genre: Epic Power Metal

Release: Stormspell Records, 2017

What's in the water in Brazil that keeps producing so many quality heavy metal musicians? I first came across Yuri Fulone's name last year in the credits of United For Metal by Brothers of Sword—a mini "supergroup" of sorts that featured members of several underground Brazilian metal bands like Grey Wolf, Cruzadas, and Hazy Hamlet coming together to bash out an album's worth of sword swingin', poser slayin' true metal in the best Manowar/Grave Digger/Dio tradition. I soon learned that Yuri was a solo artist in his own right with three self-released EP's under his belt.

Yuri's three prior releases were limited pressings of only a few hundred copies, so Stormspell Records compiled all the material from those EPs (plus one new bonus track) onto one full length disc in 2016, entitled In The Steel You Can Trust. Now Yuri has returned with an all new full length follow up on Stormspell, entitled Your Kingdom Will Fall, on which he plays all of the guitars, bass, and drums and performs lead vocals. Yuri Fulone can truly be called a "one man band!"

The cartoony, knights-laying-siege-to-a-castle cover art may look more like Monty Python and the Holy Grail than the Excalibur vibe that was likely intended (I can totally picture the French dudes launching a cow off a tower onto those knights in the foreground), but when this disc begins playing there's no funny business going on. Only believers in the Truest of Metal shall pass!