IF the history of the Harrogate music scene over the past 20-25 years is ever written (and if it is, it will be one long on talent and short on international success), the debut album by Tribe will be one of its few, true landmarks.

As already correctly assessed by none other than Tribe fan Bruce Dickinson himself, there's a lot more going on here than power metal, though there are hints of that, certainly.

Such complexity is the result of this experienced set of musicians' massive range of influences, the top three being as follows:

1 Classic 70s rock and rock-pop (Deep Purple to Queen).

2. Early 80s New Wave of British Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden to Judas Priest), and late 80s poodle hair rock (Motley Crue to Guns n Roses).

3. Late 80s thrash metal (Metallica to Megadeath).

Chuck in touches of 90s and Noughties prog metal (Dream Theater to King's X) to the mix, not to forget lead guitarist Nick Dunne's unfashionable but genuinely-felt affection for leftfield prog-pop mavericks such as Frank Zappa and Todd Rundgren, and the one word that leaps out is ambition.

The only elements missing from the list are death metal, metal core and punk. Tribe have clearly have heard of all three, it's just the growling and the howling and love of noise for its own sake is almost entirely absent.

Tribe want to produce music that grabs the heart with songs that stick in the brain - even as you're banging your head.

Thankfully, they've got the tunes, lyrics, instrumental ability and, crucially, vocal power to pull it all off.

Hooks pour out of every pore, inventive guitar lines weave in and out of big, slamming riffs and fantastical lyrical flights of featuring "ten thousand wingspans away from your love" are balanced by pithy observations on the state of the modern world such as "dead-eyed men sing rule Britannia.".

Best of all, Paul Kettley's singing shows itself up to the challenge of in a million metal music situations, from belters to ballads, whether it's high-pitched vibrato, throaty rasp or warmly emotional.

Such is the scale of Tribe's achievement on Pray For Calm. .