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01. The Charioteer
02. Confessions Of The Maker
03. Northern Rage
04. The Fools' Ballet
05. The Terror
06. Panic
07. White Wolves
08. The Burning Vision
09. Revolution In The Shadowland
10. Terminal Voyage
11. Silent Angel
02. Confessions Of The Maker
03. Northern Rage
04. The Fools' Ballet
05. The Terror
06. Panic
07. White Wolves
08. The Burning Vision
09. Revolution In The Shadowland
10. Terminal Voyage
11. Silent Angel
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| The opener The Charioteer is screaming Sweden straight in your face. Crystal Eyes play this kind of power metal that is polished to perfection in Europe's high north. I have never heard of Crystal Eyes before, and was surprised to see that they are now already in their thirteenth year and have released their fifth full length album. Once you start looking them up on the web, you read a lot of not so good reviews of their albums. After making my way three times through Confessions Of The Maker, I can't see why this one should be any worse than your average good Swedish metal album, and wonder if the lack of a big label drives some people to disperse such negative thoughts. Maybe Crystal Eyes improved with this album, as guitar player and main songwriter Mikael Dahl decided to give up singing on all but one song, and gave the microphone to Lost Horizon vocalist Daniel Heiman, whose terrific organ certainly is one of the reasons this band sounds so professional. Another reason is the fact that whenever they play faster songs, they even sound better than most power metal bands, giving them an air of late-Eighties melodic speed metal, somehow like very early Helloween. Of course they don't keep that high level throughout the album, but generally this should be a good album for fans of the genre, even if the lyrics rely too heavily on clichéd heavy metal lingo. Like I said before, without a big label in their backs, they may have a hard time getting properly distributed, but maybe the fact that they are so far the only band on their label will also help them out priority-wise. Quality-conscious melodic power metal fans should check this album out |
Category Heavy Metal
Label Phantom (import)
Orig Year n/a
CDU Part# 7346061
Catalog# HF2CD
Discs 1
Street Date Dec 05, 2006
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Additional Info Sweden
EAC extraction logfile from 29. December 2006, 21:21 for CD
Crystal Eyes / Confessions Of The Maker
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