Screaming for Metal

The guys of Dragon’s Eye (from Warsaw, Poland) have created one hell of a CD with this release.
This CD has not only 9 great songs, but also a video, which can be viewed on your PC.
This video is great and makes a wonderful starter, as it puts you in a good mood for the rest of this CD. The first real song, number 2 on the CD, is called Crimson Legion and has some beautiful guitar-solo’s. The drums and vocals are OK too. The second song, Blindman, is more relaxing, far slower and a little sad. Although it’s slow, it’s still real Heavy Metal and it has very nice riffs, great drumming and good lyrics. The solo at the end is great as well.
Song #3 is mainly instrumental: the vocals only join in after 2.5 minutes or so. This makes the song a little bit less good, as it becomes sort of boring to hear the same bit over and over again. Luckily, the rest of the song makes up for this. The lyrics are very addictive and the solo’s (solo’s… Oh, beautiful solo’s) are great. Heavy Machine is a tribute to my own favourite means of transport: the motor. I just freaked out when I heard the beautiful roar of this great machine. The vocals, lyrics, drums and guitars are great again, as are the solo’s. The fifth song is not as good as the rest. The vocals are a little bit less, as are the guitars when they’re not playing a solo (’cause those are really great). Lyrics and drumming are pretty OK though. Being jet another good song, Awakening has great lyrics, good drumming, very nice vocals and some beautiful guitar riffs. This song starts a bit like Blindman, but soon speeds up to make a very nice and reasonably fast song. Eventually, this song ends with a very nice solo, lasting a mighty 2-and-a-half (!!) minute. I also noticed the vocals really fit in with this song. This wasn’t the case with some of the others on this CD. I actually think this is the best song on the CD. The next song, Highlander, starts off beautifully with the sound of rain falling down, accompanied by slow guitar-riffs, lasting for about a minute. The rest of the song is good too. The vocals fit in very good, like with the previous one. The only things which aren’t that great are the endlessly repeating riffs and the bad lyrics. The solo’s on the other hand are, as I’m used to by now, OK again. Chemistry of Hearts, the eighth song on this CD, is a bit better. The lyrics and vocals are very good and there is enough distinction between the different riffs. One thing I noticed was that the drums seem to be accompanying the vocals, which in its turn seems to accompany the guitars. In other words, the vocals are accompanying the music, while in the rest of the songs the music seems to accompany the vocals.
The last song on this CD is not that good. The solo’s are great, but the rest of the riffs are a bit simple and rather standard and the lyrics get a little boring in the end.

Overall, the CD comes out OK. It takes some time to get used to the vocals and these don’t fit in with all the songs, but that’s about the only bad point I can find on this Demo. The drumming, lyrics and guitars are in general very good. But most importantly, the solo’s are just perfect.