Firewind

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Album Title: 
Apotheosis – Live 2012
Release Date: 
Monday, June 24, 2013
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This is already the second live album by Firewind. In 2008 they released their first one ‘Premonition’.  Since they’ve released two additional studio albums and thought the time was ripe to release another live album.  This is also the last material they are releasing with their former vocalist Apollo, who left the band after seven fruitful years.

I always found Firewind one of the best metal bands hailing form Greece, and with this album they once again fasten this reputation with seventeen very good songs, being a collection of songs from their last two studio albums where some of their older songs have been added to.

The band show here that they were in good form that day, and the audience enthusiastically reacts on the band’s performance.  Needless to say that the guitar work by Gus G is of an outstanding quality, and once again shows the man’s considerable talents.

I always had, and probably will always have problems with live albums, since they are only able to fractionallly let the listener feel what the show really must have been like.  But since this is such good music, well performed, this album gets a good score.

88/100