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Dark Moor - The Fall of Melnibone

Pointless - 30%

thammaren, September 23rd, 2008

For the sake of the music, I will give this EP thirty percent instead of zero. Some of the songs are really quite good, but the release of this mini-album was pretty much a waste. It is really a compilation more than anything and not very consistent. It runs a whole forty minutes, but as it is really a compilation, the band doesn't count it as a full-length.

The first song, The Fall Of Melnibone, is present on the EP "Between Light And Darkness" as well as a bonus track for "The Gates Of Oblivion". However, this was pretty much its first appearance, making it one of two previously unreleased songs on this release. However, it is also complete garbage; overlong, and worse, power metal, with ridiculous lyrics. As far as musicianship, it is nothing special.

The next track is "Silver Lake" and it has already been released. It is a classic neo-classical / power metal song, but we all heard it on their album Hall Of the Olden Dreams... we don't need to hear it again. Dark Moor must have been really desperate for money.

The next song is the only good ORIGINAL song on the record, and it's called "Wood's Song". It combines a peaceful acoustic guitar part with spectacular vocals, and is what I would call one of the best songs of Dark Moor.

And finally, we reach the last two tracks, both covers of other metal bands. One of them is actually quite good, but the Nu cover was complete bullshit. Dark Moor sings in English, the majority of its fans are fluent in English, and almost everyone in their home country speak English, so why cover a completely stupid Spanish metal song? It has no lyrical value to me, personally. Even if you have taken some Spanish lessons, they are not advanced enough. The other cover is of the king of power metal, Helloween, with their song "Halloween". The cover is very long, and lives up to the standards the original set. However, it was already included in another album, so why the hell put it on this one?

Dark Moor needed something to fill the gap between the release of their albums here, I suppose. But that had never really bothered them before.