Starting off with more nostalgic AOR. Again, like Arctic Rain last time, this has the warm-n-fuzzy 80s vibe. Nothing particularly strong or spectacular, but great to have on while you're working on things or just want to rock out from the comfort of your armchair.
So this band is listed as doom metal wherever I look, but this is way too uptempo, based on what I know for the genre. This is creeping into heavy/US power territory, with some pretty technical riffs. Still, it's crunchy and epic in an old-school sort of way, which works for me!
Dark, brooding symphonic metal, very much in the vein of classic Nightwish. Dramatic and huge, with some solid crunching guitars and massive choirs, all centered around Elina Siirala's operatic vocals, it all makes for a great piece of epic metal.
Yup, DGM again. This album is sounding like it's going to be as good as the last one, and the last one was very good! The Italians just seem to have the touch: anthemic, melodic, broad, epic, just really great prog metal, as far as I'm concerned.
I know Magnus Karlsson mostly for his work in Primal Fear, but he's also in over a dozen other projects, and I guess this is the one he puts his own name on. This one is an interesting fusion of AOR and symphonic metal, with a dash of shred for good measure.
I don't know if this band could sound more like Iron Maiden if they tried! The singer Artur Almeida is clearly imitating Bruce Dickinson's dramatic style of singing, but he does it qutie well, and the band has some pretty solid chops to back it up.
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