Shadows Past

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Perfect Chapter
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Friday, March 29, 2013
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This band was formed in 2000 by ex Insania singer Ola Halén.They recorded several demos, the last one being released in 2009. As a matter of fact three songs of that last demo were refurbished and feature on this album.

They bring us progressive power metal with a very high standard.  This is powerful music, but also very melodic.  While listening to this album, you get hints of Helloween, but Symphony X also lurks around the corner. There are two ‘minor’ points however.  First of all some songs contain grunts, a thing I don’t particularly appreciate.  But luckily enough there aren’t that many.  The other thing is that Ola Halén has a rather high pitched voice, which meant that I had to listen to this album a few times, before starting to really like it.

A very promising debut album.

88/100