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Pantheon - Empire of Madness

Enjoyable power for the year being - 65%

linkavitch, June 11th, 2009

It seems that nothing has come from the power metal genre for several years now. Most bands have been releasing softer, mainstream pop oriented power metal lately. Edguy, Hammerfall, Human Fortress, Avantasia, and various other power bands have been releasing generic, softer, more mainstream based metal lately. Pantheon isn’t a full blown mainstream power metal band, not at all. They just happen to have an overwhelming happy feel to them.

This is very light, and fluffy power metal no doubt about that. The main aspect to this band is the excessive use of the keyboard played in a neoclassical way. The keyboard is obviously the main aspect to every song on here excluding the intro and the cover song. Its not that they use the keyboard a lot that bothers me is that the keyboard part is a little repetitive. After listening to a few songs it feels that the part of the keyboardist is being recycled is a few songs.

Nothing too amazing is coming from the guitarist. They generally play a lot of light melodic melodies, with the occasional solo or bridge in each song. I would have liked if they more audible. The production is not terrible, it’s clean with audible bass, but the drums are too loud (mostly double bass), and the guitar is too low. If the drumming wasn’t so repetitive I wouldn’t mind the production job, although if you can mind the drumming it won’t bother you much.

Pantheon isn’t a bad band; in fact they can be rather enjoyable. They just have to work of a few things (drumming, keyboard mostly), and maybe find better songs to cover. For 2007, this is fairly enjoyable power metal. Hopefully they will have another album come out where they fix those flaws.