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Well, I didn’t see this one coming. A colleague of mine asked if I would be interested in reviewing a debut album of the Danish progressive power metal band Theory<\/strong>. Although I still only have 24 hours in\u00a0a day, I\u00a0grabbed this opportunity. I went in completely blank and the first thing that struck me after the intro was the\u00a0vocals, they sound so familiar and so damn good! Then I took a look at the info and\u00a0found out that Nicklas Sonne (Evil Masquarade, Defecto and Malrun) is the frontman. An other thing that immediately got me is the sound of the guitars. They sound very crunchy and a bit low tuned, which sees to it that the songs sound rather heavy. Responsable for that is founding member\u00a0Odin Laugesen Madsen, also known as guitar teacher at the Danish Metal Acadamy. He is a fabulous shredder and\u00a0riffmonster. Esben Dueholm is the other\u00a0riff master in the line-up. The band is completed\u00a0by the other founding member and drummer Martin Killic (Death Comes Pale) and bassplayer Kim Mikkelsen. Kim played in Twilight and was responsable for the bass parts on\u00a0one of my favorite albums Eye For An Eye. <\/em><\/p>\n

All this experience of this great musicians explain the high level in song writing and execution. The music is a kind of mix of\u00a0Symphony X, Nocturnal Rites in their Shadowland<\/em> era, Defecto\u00a0and Nevermore (the riffing). The title track is immediately one of the highlights, a midtempo song with a nice refrain, a sporadic grunt and a low tuned bass that gives\u00a0it a real heavy vibe. Nicklas shines in ‘Sea of Damnation’ and puts the level\u00a0high for everyone calling himself a metal singer. The\u00a0tribal part makes me think of Sepultura and the shredding guitarsolo is phenomenal.\u00a0‘Demon’s Domain’ starts as a\u00a0\u00a0Dio track with a slow riff, but then speeds up, some shredding in Zakk Wylde style follows. Again a very strong track with roots of Black Sabbath, Dio and Ozzy in it. Thoughts of Symphony X return with the song ‘Stranger Descent’, the guest part of Derek Sherinian is the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

After that I can mention every song because they all have\u00a0the same high level and I enjoy them from\u00a0the first note till the last.\u00a0Everything is valid on the album, the drums sound tight, the bass\u00a0fits perfect in the mix, the guitar riffs have the right heavy crunchy tune and the singer is one of the best in the genre.\u00a0If I have to choose\u00a0a favorite song it would be the heavy track ‘In Silence We Ride’, with fast drum parts, some great riffs half way and a nice solo near the end. The song I have to get used to the most is the ballad ‘Our Journey’, not a bad song, but\u00a0it just misses something really special. The grand finale with ‘Skies Are Falling’ ends this album as great as it started.<\/p>\n

I don’t think there will be a lot debut albums this year that are going to top this. I would have given the band almost the\u00a0perfect ten devils, but I am not, just because I want to challenge them to even make a better second album\u00a0in the future. First there will be only a digital release, but a physical one will follow soon. I can’t wait to lay my hand on that one.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THEORY - Album sampler: The Art of Evil (ORDER NOW)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-H9HfbfY7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Tracklist:<\/h4>\n01. Awakening \n02. The Art Of Evil \n03. Sea Of Damnation \n04. Demon’s Domain \n05. Strangers Descent \n06. Frozen \n07. Liquid Order \n08. The Escape \n09. In Silence We Ride \n10. Catch-22 \n11. Our Journey \n12. Skies Are Falling<\/p>\n <\/p>\nPlaying time<\/strong>: 53:00<\/p>\nRelease date:<\/strong> 20 February 2017<\/p>\nLabel:<\/strong> Digital release through Gateway Music<\/p>\nWebsite:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorymetal.com\">www.theorymetal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well, I didn’t see this one coming. A colleague of mine asked if I would be interested in reviewing a debut album of the Danish progressive power metal band Theory. Although I still only have <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/reviews\/theory-the-art-of-evil\" title=\"Theory – The Art Of Evil\">[Read \u00bb]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":15870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[891,892,90,9,19,122,889],"class_list":{"0":"post-15869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews","8":"tag-defecto","9":"tag-malrun","10":"tag-nevermore","11":"tag-power-metal","12":"tag-progressive-metal","13":"tag-symphony-x","14":"tag-theory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15869"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16020,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions\/16020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}