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Back to the roots or back to the future? No matter how you call it, Grave Digger record the first album of their career completely without keyboard passages. With new axeman Tobias Kersting, the band finds it's way back to long forgotten trademarks. Raw, brutal, honest and yet catchy, songs like "Bone Collector" or "Made of Madness" thunder out of the speakers. Groovemonsters like "Riders of Doom" or "Mirror of Hate" come across like a steamroller and the band also quotes the good old stadium rock times in the form of "The Devils Serenade". "Bone Collector" is a manifesto of German Heavy Metal, old-school at it's best, without rust and patina, no self-copying and always authentic, this is how the band's new work can be described. Rarely has the band sounded more versatile than in these days. Energetic, fresh, multifaceted... brings it to the point.