I’ve often thought Lady Gaga missed her true calling. Every single time I see her she looks completely different and virtually unrecognizable compared to prior exposures. Something about her face seems unusually pliant and amorphous, allowing her to achieve radically different looks. This makes her the near perfect assassin for those super secret guilds and enclaves we know exist thanks to Assassin’s Creed. No matter how many witnesses saw her smoke some fool, none would recognize her an hour later at the local Taco Shack, even if she took their order and spilled Monster Energy in their laps. That’s true power, my friends. Bloodbound, wield a similar though far less effective enigma cloak – altering their approach from album to album in an attempt to find some mythological metallic sweet spot. Starting life as a cracking traditional metal group, they subsequently drifted into borderline Euro-power and back several times with varied results. On 2014s Stormborn they took things quite deep into D&D Euro-puffery territory with a threadbare Game of Thrones concept. While far from stellar, it worked after a fashion and offered a few fun moments. As is obvious from the title and LARPilicious cover, War of Dragons takes that style and simply rocks right into Mordor with it. Does this foretell of their demise via critical fire or rebirth via Rhapsody OF Fire? It’s a fine, fine line.