Once into the heart of the song, however, it begins plodding and ends up spinning it's tires when the awesome chorus drops out. The title track opens things effectively enough, featuring a monolithic main riff and the typical orchestral buildup courtesy of Katzenburg. Here on The Last Supper the straightforward tracks aren't as memorable or potent, making these moodier, atmospheric numbers wholly unwelcome in the procession as frustration mounts. On other, better albums these serve as proverbial breaks in the action, often sandwiched between punishing, mid-paced cookers as per the band's typical output. Grave Digger always deliver the goods on the slower, gloomier cuts such as 'Crucified' and 'Always and Eternally'. Like The Grave Digger six years before it, The Last Supper spends too much of its time wallowing in directionless atmospherics. While similar in function and form to most of Grave Digger's modern classics, I can't help but feel an air of stagnation permeating these proceedings. While consistent and well-meaning to the band's origins, The Last Supper is dealt a bad hand from the start by having to follow up the spectacular Rheingold.

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