Perhaps you recognize the following situation. There is an awesome party and it is really cozy and relaxed. The music is good, the beer and wine are fine, the women are gorgious and plenty enough food. It could have been the perfect evening, but there is one person in the room that spoils it for everyone. He is drinking too much and\u00a0is wandering around like a mad dog, insulting people, talking to loud and using language with too many 4 letter words…<\/p>\n
I get a same kind of feeling\u00a0listening to this album. Everything is there to make this a good piece of music, only one thing, no I should say: one person\u00a0spoils it for me.\u00a0Ben Colton (guitar\/vocals) his singing is irritating me all the time. His whining bit barok sounding false singing spoils it for me. His clean singing, but also when he tries to sound more aggressive is just not good.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0band from the UK is influenced by Iron Maiden and Judas Priest with many twin guitar harmonies and leads. Traditional heavy metal with nice riffing, good solos accompanied by atmospheric bit symphonic\u00a0keyboard parts. In general also the songwriting is above average, however the song “Dreamsnatcher” does nothing to me. Perhaps again because of the singing, I don’t know. Another example is “Fall Forever”, a ballad\u00a0that is completely destroyed again because of the singing. I feel pitty for the\u00a0rest of the band that I can’t be more positive about their new album. A tip: please let Ben just play guitar on the next album and find a new\u00a0singer.<\/p>\n
Just because the music is o.k. I will not give the album an F. Perhaps that there are enough of you that like the singer better than me and then this is\u00a0an album you could like.<\/p>\n