Featuring a story of some evil being fighting the Elemental Gods who banished him somewhere (a rough sypnosis), this benefits from being consistently speedy (apart from the unfortunately inevitable ballad at the end) and the tinklings of keyboardist Juha Mäenpää (including the piano), whose work rescues most of the songs from their rather rudimentary melodies.
With highlights including "Revenge" and "The Sword And The Shield" (vocalist Kimmo Perämäki doesn't pronounce the W in sword! Unfortunately, he does pronounce it nearly everytime he says the word 'I'), this is not especially fantastic, but it's pretty enjoyable, typical power metal all the same.
***1/2
And so I come to the end of another year, 2002. Off the top of my head, Rhapsody, Freedom Call and Iron Savior stood out for me, while I should also give boquets to others, like Axenstar, Arwen, Falconer and Power Quest. There was some ordinary stuff there, but good as well.
Now it's time for another break here, while I get ready for 2003. Over the last couple of weeks, I've booked a trip to the UK in May, where I will be for about five weeks. I'll certainly should be able to cover 2003 in that time, and would like to try for 2004 before I go as well.
We'll see. But the good thing is, I started this blog over a year ago, really not sure whether I would get tired of all this power metal stuff, not to mention writing about it. But, through the positives and negatives, I haven't. There's plenty more to come, and I'm looking forward to it. :)
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