Dream Evil - Dragonslayer (2002)

What an eeeeevviiilll name.  But what heroes these Swedes are, really.  Dream Evil originally wanted to be called Dragonslayer, but it was not seen as original enough, so they borrowed the title of a Dio album.
And with that name, they slay dragons to save their king and conquer evil that, I'm guessing, they dream about. This debut has two outstanding songs in "The Chosen Ones" (you've got to have Chosen Ones) and "Heaven Metal In The Night", and a forgettable ballad, "Losing You", while the rest is pretty standard, making the album as a whole... well... pretty standard. It's tightly played, with no waste of space, which is a positive, helping to make it all a good, without being groundbreaking, listen.

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