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Dream Quest - The Release

Kick some face, we'll fight until we die! - 87%

Vintersemestre, March 31st, 2005

I suppose the first track is meant to be sort of humourous, what with being called "Facekicker", but it doesn't really represent the rest of the album. The rest of it has a somber, serious mood, some songs discussing faith in christ, others simply pounding the epic cheesiness all the way home (and there is plenty to be found on this album). The second track is probably some of the best Gamma Ray fellating I've ever heard. I know folks get sick of Gamma Ray rip-offs, but this band really does it right. If you're a flower metal fan, you'll feel like sprouting wings and flying over the rainbow bridge to fairyland. Despite similarities to other bands, this band definitely falls into the "new vein" of power metal that I predicted after I heard Drakkar's "Razorblade God". I don't exactly have a name for it yet, but it includes bands such as Drakkar (if they continue in the direction they're going) Moonlight Agony, Olympos Mons, Frostweaver, these guys and a few others. It's not really a musical thing so much as it is an ideological one, or the way of presenting the music... they can be pretentious, but avoid being bombastic, or more correctly, too enthusiastic. There is a somber undertone that defies explanation... either that or I'm imagining things.

I've heard alot of mediocre, excellent and crappy new power metal bands lately (with most being mediocre), and these guys are definitely in the top of the excellence category. There's no doubt that these guys know how to play their instruments, and there is a lot of innovation here; "Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today" displays this. It's a religious song with a distinctly semitic flow about a hopeless non-christian living in Jerusalem. I know this kind of topic would make most of you gag, but it really is a good song, give it a go. Hell, give the whole album a go, it's the best power metal album I've heard since I bought Hellfire Club.