German band At Vance (these Germans just don't stop) has become one of the more successful power metal acts around, one of their unusual traits is their habit of doing rather oddball covers, the one here being ABBA's "Money, Money, Money" (with one less "Money" in the title, presumably to try and make it their own all the more), which is followed by a portion of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons". With the ballad "Lost In Your Love" that comes next, this debut album is almost broken up into two halves, as most of the rest is pretty basic material, some of which is kind of ordinary (like "No Escape" and the concluding "Seven Seas"), while others ("Flying High", "All For One, One For All", "Power & Glory") are nice rather than mighty, making this is a pleasantly enjoyable listen more than a brilliant one. But Main man Olaf Lenk is great on his axe, and Oliver Hardmann is a very impressive vocalist, so one suspects there's more to At Vance than just what we have here.
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