This album could be of interest to Metal fans that like classic orientated Metal with a direct approach, riff based songs, high vocals and some cool melodies.
At Dawn You Die is a fast and hard played song. It has some great changes that make it one of the best on the record. The song has a very good chorus and has some interesting melodies.
Song Of Roland is a seven minute mid-tempo song with a great fast guitar solo, the slow passage is atmospheric and works very well, a great song about the classic knight story.
A more personal lyric about inner struggle is featured in
Demons Buried Within. A very fast, direct and aggressive track of pretty good quality.
What keeps the rating down is that there is only seven songs on the album (and one cover song), and of those there are two songs that are without much interesting,
War In The Sky is a very standard song based on a simple rhythm. One song is of standard level,
That Evil Wizard, which features a strange melody line, both a great solo and some technical singing.
Like the song titles predict the lyrical universe is one of magic, mystery, fantasy stuff and knights. Not the most capturing, but fitting most of the times.
Keeper Of The Gate is another long track with changing pace and rhythm. A pretty good song with a great riff and a powerful underlying fundament.
The sound on the record is clear and above average although there could be more depth in the songs.
The guys in the band all perform well. The great vocals and tight guitar play is a plus. The drums are doing their job in creating power in the songs without anything really special. The bass lays the necessary solid fundament in the songs, but not exactly untameable in creating details.
A just "good" album with some cool songs, but also without the really fantastic ones. I listen to it now and then but it lacks the overall picture of something really capturing, also because some of the basic elements in the songs come close to each other at times.
It must be said that the album has energy and a nice direct style.
Written by
Tommy Thursday, January 23, 2003
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