Fire Starter, the second album from Spain's Slowburn, is a classic Fighter Records release of high-octane heavy metal with a nice, crunchy guitar sound and high-pitched vocals that are sure to get your head banging. There's a good variety of pacing, so Fire Starter flows well. Slowburn (in contrast to their name) can speed things up, like on the raucous "The Price of Liberty" and "Psycho Wars" as well as dial it back on cuts like "Exiled." "The Beast" has a wild, doomy vocal lines, making me think of early Trouble if they played more traditional metal, while "Touch the Sky" has something of an epic ebb and flow, like Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir." Fire Starter is a simple, straightforward, and consistently entertaining album with plenty of propulsive songwriting and throw-your-fist-in-the-air energy. Bands like Tower and Sin Starlett leapt to mind, so if that kind of unadulterated metal is what gets you going, Slowburn is a band to check out.