Royal Hunt's seventh studio album is neither their best or their worst. Following a theme of laments of the world today (not that that's an unusual thread for a metal band), with a few cries to God here and there ("The Prayer", "Wicked Lounge", "Help Us God") it has the familiar sounds of steady, chugging guitars and shimmering keyboards, although there are a couple of left turns, like with "The Prayer", which only features John West's multi-layered vocals, and a church organ, and the jazz-flavoured "Wicked Lounge", but the best track is probably the instrumental "5th Element".
These Danes have done better, but
Eyewitness is certainly still a listenable release.
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