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The production values aren't the highest, the vocals aren't the best but damn did it do something for me. This provided me with that invaluable, surging joy that absolutely makes or breaks an album for anyone who's devoted to their music.
Driving rhythms, clever pace changes, skilled instrumentation... it's fresh out of the glory days of NWOBHM.
Hey, it's good music, I can't deny, it has an adorable quality but it's... well, imagine Judas Priest and AC/DC had a musical baby and that baby was fronted by a man with the vocal capacity of Senor Cardgage.
The instrumentation? Good.
The music? Good.
The sound quality? Good.
The unique flavour that marks a good band? There.
The vocals? Awful.
Seems to be the way with so many bands on Jamendo.
The ideas are good, they're certainly more imaginative than most metal bands but are in dire need of some polish and refinement and increased production quality.
Okay, there's a certain lack of pace and variety, I clung on for minutes in to every song hoping they'd kickstart some powerful musical journey, something good metal does so well, but it never came. One major plus for these guys is that unlike so many other bands here they've got a good singer to back up the noise.
Ultimately if they worked on the depth of their compositions I'd make these guys a permanent fixture on my playlist.
I'm not sure what bugged me more about this, it could have been the awful MIDIesque sound quality, it could have been the terrible, terrible sub-movie-soundtrack quality of the compositons or it could have been the totally uninspiring nature of it all but this really did sink faster than the Titanic in my mind.
There's some potential here spoiled by awful vocals and a tendency for songs to go nowhere after a promising opening.
Each track is as unimaginative as the last, each as uninspiring. There's little more I can say about this other than that it belongs in the background score to a second rate web browser game.
The lyrics have the embarrassing and clumsy feel of teenage angst poetry and the whole tone is overly sedate but it's certainly listenable.
High production values and some interesting metal with a touch of Jeff Wayne about it. Good background music, good for car journeys, good to mellow out to. What else can I say?
The vocals grate, the music is poorly mixed and overly loud, the songs are at best derivative and lame enough to make Less Than Jake blush with shame and the layering and sheer thickness of the music makes it feel more like an aural assault than something I'd listen to by choice.
