Six Magics - Dead Kings Of The Unholy Valley (2001)

Chile.  Now I've never listened to a band from Chile before. In fact, I could not even name a musical act from Chile. Oh, yes I could.
Six Magics.
And here is their debut, which is definitely a mixed bag. It's a haphazard, somewhat overlong story of battles and all that, with tuneless noodlings mixed in with sudden bursts of choirs and suchlike (and, during the concluding, twelve-minute title track, a bit of Bach), with a vocalist in Sergio Domínguez, who is a bit weak. The band is a sextet, so I don't know if their name is a reference to that.  They all sound proficient enough, but the result is certainly better in bits and pieces than as an overall whole.

**1/2