Powermetal monsters Brainstorm are back with another viscious brand of Melodic but heavy Powermetal.

The songs are awesome and original much like Masterplan acheived on their debut. Hooks abound and the songs will catch you and not let go until they have drilled into your brain. All the songs are geared for a live, crowd pleasing, rant and rage with the rabid metal fans shouting out the choruses with headbanging power!

There is not much to say here except that they have put together another phenominal powermetal album that neither breaks new ground really or loses anything they have achieved thus far. The playing is awesome and skills are in no short supply. The vocals are clean, low and high but with a power that gives the songs a more heavy feel to them. Excellent stuff!

Fans of Masterplan, Helloween's Dark Ride Album, and Rage take note! This one burns!

Stand Out tracks I liked the most were The Leading, The Trinity of Lust, Soul Temptation and the closer Rising. Production is top notch and will make your speakers vibrate with joy!

Written by David
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
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David: 8.5/10

Members: 8.5/10 - Average of 2 ratings.



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Modulator Rating: 9.5/10 Probably my favorite Brainstorm cd.... · Read more ·

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Comment by Rodrigo Schmidt (Anonymous) - Sunday, October 26, 2003

It's an okay album, but nothing that special. I really thinks that Ambitguity kicks off!

Review by Tommy (Member) - Monday, January 5, 2004

View Profile Comments: 74 Ratings: 31 Oh yes this is highly enjoyable indeed. Brainstorm has a special-sounding, extremely bombastic and hard style of Power Metal to offer the hungry Metal scene, and a big plus is the fact that the songs seem very worked-through and displaying both intensity and ear-hanging capacity. The lyrics once again have a cool complex gleam dealing with themes from inner struggle to dark mysticism presented with great vocal strength. Some favourites are the hard pumping Highs Without Lows, the fast and aggressive To The Head and Fornever with its great symphonic dimension and ingenious nature. This said I still hunger for more really high quality tracks and a couple more fast blasts; the album has quite many mid-tempo cuts that are good but not exactly mind-blowing. Some choruses have a tendency to be close to unmelodic, partly due to a tiresome spoken style as in Fading. There exist no doubt that these guys are very familiar and trained in creating quite technical, very grooving and highly intensive Power Metal, the guitars are extremely vigorous and the level of tightness in the rhythm section is remarkable high. I can strongly advise you to invest in the limited edition containing a bonus DVD with the strong and well-produced Summer Breeze Festival 2002 performance. The diverse, epic and ultra heavy Ambiguity album is after all still my absolute favourite Brainstorm release. Rating: 7.5/10 Posted by Tommy Monday, January 5, 2004

Review by Modulator (Member) - Friday, January 9, 2009

View Profile Comments: 15 Ratings: 19 Probably my favorite Brainstorm cd. Rating: 9.5/10 Posted by Modulator Friday, January 9, 2009